Actually American jumped into the shenanigans with an agreement to take USAir's 757 and F100 aircraft, in conjunction with the TWA purchase. This was negotiated to appease some of the DOJ concerns and to compliment the Robert Johnson "DC Air" spinoff and to insure that AA would be a similar size player in the battle of the titans. So while not a "merger with USAirways" I suspect this is what he alludes to in his article.