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Airline, airport officials talk about impact of American- US Airways merger

My colleague Ken Kaye reports of the local impact of the pending merger. How will passengers at South Florida’s local airports be affected by the merger? Initially, they’ll see almost no changes at all, as airline officials anticipate it will take months for the merger to be legally approved and all the details sorted out. “It’s business as usual,” said Madeleine Grey, a US Airways vice president. By this fall, however, the U.S. Airways name will start fading away and US Airways ticket counters either convert to American Airlines or some other carrier. Also, regular US Airways fliers will have to report to different concourses than they’re...