American Airlines parent AMR Corp. and US Airways Group Inc. officially announced their merger Monday, creating the world’s largest airline and likely marking the end to a wave of major-carrier consolidation that has helped put U.S. airlines on more sound financial footing.
The merged airline will take the American Airlines name and will be bigger than Chicago-based United Airlines. It will have a global network with nearly 6,700 daily flights to more than 330 destinations in more than 50 countries and more than 100,000 employees worldwide.
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