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Priority Travel News: Airline merger would have a big-city impact

A merger between Delta Air Lines (DAL) and Northwest (NWA) or United (UAUA) would greatly extend the reach of the resulting airline, giving it influence over service and fares in more major U.S. business markets than any of them has today.
A Delta-United deal would be an industry game-changer, giving the combined carrier heft in eight of the USA's 12 biggest business markets, according to a USA TODAY analysis of schedule data from OAGback Aviation Solutions. The analysis combines the current shares of each carrier in the big markets, establishing a rough estimate of the share the combined carrier might control. Full Story - Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News - Lane Bryant