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From: wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin)
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Subject: Why Texas Air Uses So Much Phone Service
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Date: 29 May 90 16:02:56 GMT
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"Texas Air" is the holding company that owns not only the airline by
that name, but also New York Air, Continental, and TWA.  (Those
include the lines that were taken over by this group, and no longer
have separate identities, like Ozark.) Also, Northwest merged its
reservations system into TWA's, so all those airlines' phone usage is
merged under the "Texas Air" entry.

(Source: newspaper articles in the {St. Louis Post-Dispatch} on Carl
Icahn and what fate is in store for TWA [which has its hub here in St.
Louis and thus is of much local interest].)


Regards, Will