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Jake Angelo

American Airlines CEO calls United merger a ‘nonstarter’: ‘No way to view that as anything but anticompetitive’

robert isom (Credit: Samuel Corum—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom on Thursday became the latest, and most consequential no on the rumored American-United merger.

In an interview with CNBC Thursday shortly after the company reported first-quarter earnings, Isom called the merger a “nonstarter from the get-go.”

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