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- <text id=93TT1634>
- <title>
- May 10, 1993: A Gathering of Eagles
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- BUSINESS, Page 25
- A Gathering of Eagles
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Four of Europe's smaller airlines join forces to take on
- the global giants
- </p>
- <p> All the talk about an airline shake-out in Europe's
- overcrowded, unprofitable skies was, until last week, just talk.
- Then came the announcement that four airlines would merge,
- creating Europe's largest international carrier. KLM Royal Dutch
- Airlines, Swissair, Austrian Airlines and the trinational
- Scandinavian Airlines System said they would go far beyond
- earlier plans to combine certain activities and would create a
- single company with a new (yet unchosen) name and logo.
- Ownership would be split 30-30-30 among KLM, SAS and Swissair,
- with Austrian holding the remaining 10%. Starting with about 270
- planes and more than 30 million passengers a year, the new
- aerocombine, which could come into existence as early as next
- year, will pose a major challenge to British Airways, Air France
- and Germany's Lufthansa--once the unions are assuaged,
- negotiations are completed, and the boards of the four companies
- approve it.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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