... while consumers suffer. Despite what Parker says in this video, consolidation looks great from a business perspective and is almost always pricey from the customer’s viewpoint.
The two airlines will start their transition planning and assembling integration teams, but the heavy lifting can't begin until the fourth quarter of 2013.
The case of Doug Parker, the affable CEO that’s be known to dress up as Psy for Halloween, will be a study for business courses when looking at CEOs that have relentlessly gone after what their businesses needed and succeeded.
This is the true story about how a scrappy airline from Tempe, Arizona merged at just the right times to create the world's largest airline without losing its soul.
Parker has clearly proven his qualifications to lead an American Airlines-US Airways merger, while Richard Anderson at Delta is poised to be the biggest winner.