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- <text id=93TT1279>
- <title>
- Mar. 29, 1993: Transatlantic Alliance
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 29, 1993 Yeltsin's Last Stand
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 15
- BUSINESS
- Transatlantic Alliance
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>With a stake in USAir, British Airways boosts its global air
- power
- </p>
- <p> For executives at British Airways and USAir, it must have
- been a bit like waiting in an airport for a long-delayed flight
- to take off. After a dizzying series of starts and stalls dating
- back to last year, the U.S. Transportation Department finally
- approved cash-hungry USAir's sale of a $300 million stake, or
- 20% of the airline, to British Air. The move came over the
- objections of USAir's Big Three rivals--United, Delta and
- American--who claim the deal will give British Air an edge in
- a new era of global air competition. American's chairman, Robert
- Crandall, complained that Washington was giving up a piece of
- the U.S. pie without getting anything in return--such as a
- bigger share of Britain's market.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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