Companies Will Mount Vigorous And Strong Defense of Merger
Combined Airline Will Offer Benefits to Consumers, Communities and Employees
FORT WORTH, Texas and TEMPE, Ariz., Aug. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — AMR Corporation (OTCQB: AAMRQ), the parent company of American Airlines, Inc., and US Airways Group, Inc. (NYSE: LCC) today announced that they intend to mount a vigorous and strong defense to the U.S. Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) effort to block their proposed merger.
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“We believe that the DOJ is wrong in its assessment of our merger. Integrating the comp…