The article (Carey, R 2015) reads that American airlines will faced its biggest challenge of merging US Airways by the end of October 2015. Since, history of other rival airline has proven that transition can be brutally painful if not done precisely. American has taken a gradual approach of transferring frequent flier plan as well as the US Airway cargo, revenue accounting, retiree-travel and employee functions to the American version seamlessly. In addition, American has hired 1900 employees to assist in transitional process by extending hours around the clock and putting temporarily agent US Airway hubs to assist. Therefore, in my opinion American took a proactive approach of starting this process 22 month earlier and seems to be on tract
