Our new liveblog: American Airlines and US Airways merger
We want to help you -- and ourselves -- keep track of American Airlines' long, reluctant journey to merging with its one-time antagonist, smaller carrier, and much-better-run rival US Airways. To make it easy, we'll be liveblogging the rest of the trip at skift.com/american-merger.
In addition to the excellent coverage you've come to rely upon at Skift, we'll be calling out and linking to the best stories, tweets, and and video reports about the merger from across the web.
Click here to follow the action.
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