New York Times
• Niraj Chokshi
United CEO acknowledges it pitched an American merger idea; American was unwilling, leaving US combination talks effectively sta
United’s chief said for the first time that he raised the idea of a merger with American—an approach American was unwilling to consider. The admission underscores how far the carrier-to-carrier discussion progressed (and why it didn’t), amid the same antitrust and political scrutiny weighing on US consolidation.
