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Feb 22, 06, 10:14 am
The merger of US Airways and America West is predicated on keeping processes and applications simple – and cutting $100 million in IT costs.
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Joe Beery compares the job of merging US Airways, a national airline, and America West Airlines, a low-cost, predominantly regional carrier, to creating a three-humped camel. Sitting in his ninth floor office in Tempe, overlooking the Arizona desert, the CIO of the new airline that began operating under the US Airways name in September 2005 seems to have found an appropriate metaphor.

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