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Next up for obligatory CEO training: don't publicly tell investors how mergers allow you to jack up prices, and then tell regulators how mergers will reduce costs to consumers.<\/div>\n

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Gov’t uses airline executives’ words against them<\/a>
\n NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 In making its case against an American Airlines-US Airways merger, the government relies heavily on an unusual source of evidence:\n <\/p>\n

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Next up for obligatory CEO training: don't publicly tell investors how mergers allow you to jack up prices, and then tell regulators how mergers will reduce costs to consumers. Gov’t uses airline executives’ words against them NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 In making its case against an American Airlines-US Airways merger, the government relies heavily on … Continue reading “We will make big bucks! 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