October 2011
Intermediate to advanced
220 pages
6h 5m
English

“Deregulation will be the greatest thing to happen to the airlines since the jet engine.”
—Richard Ferris, former CEO United Airlines, 1976
Since the advent of air travel, airlines have regularly fallen apart and been put back together by government and the courts. Whether through mergers and acquisitions or bankruptcies, the industry regularly reconfigures and reinvents itself. Here are some of the more noteworthy bankruptcies in the U.S. in recent years: Frontier (2008); ATA (2008); Delta (2005); Northwest (2005); US Airways for the second time (2004); United (2002); US Airways (2002); ...