US Airways Group Inc. and American Airlines, which announced earlier this month that they would merge to form the world's biggest air carrier, named executives yesterday to lead their integration team, Reuters reported yesterday. Scott Kirby, president of US Airways, and Bev Goulet, chief restructuring officer at AMR Corp.'s American, will develop plans so the airlines can start melding as soon as the $11 billion merger closes, expected in the third quarter, the chief executives of the carriers said in a staff memo. A merged American-US Airways would have revenue of more than $38 billion based on 2012 figures, ahead of current No. 1 United Continental Holdings Inc., the product of a 2010 merger. US Airways began its pursuit of a merger not long after American filed for chapter 11 protection in late November 2011.
