Originally Posted by
Dick Ginkowski
Midwest Express is gone. Southwest swallowed AirTran. Continental and United merged (and Continental was a well run airline). American gobbled up US Air after it took over America Westand, earlier, TWA. There are other carriers that fell off the radar, Alaska is still around. (I always wondered where an Alaska-US Air merger would have made sense.)
I'm pretty sure America West was the dominant party in the USAir merger (e.g. their board was left standing). They simply went with the US brand because it was stronger.