Originally Posted by
Hedley
The government was concerned with overlap of routes and was putting up some resistance. Robert Johnson was the former CEO of BET, and was going to be in charge of the new airline. They even tried to pressure the feds by playing the race card in the papers about how he would be the first black CEO of an airline. The deal was having problems, but it was still there. 9/11 finished it off.
Just looked it up and it appears that the deal fell through in early July, 2001 with both USAir and United announcing they were no longer seeking the merger due to anti-trust concerns.
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