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American's consolidation plans would provide consumers with some benefits. The deals would lessen airport congestion and reduce flight delays because American could route passengers through TWA's former St. Louis hub rather than through crowded Chicago or Dallas. Some jetliners now take off with many empty seats--tying up scarce runway and air-traffic space--because carriers tend to jam competing flights into the same popular time slots. Fewer carriers would mean fewer overlapping flights. Passengers could also get service to more cities on the same carrier, a benefit for those who want to concentrate their frequent-flyer miles...
...Justice Department's merger review could come at an awkward time for American, which is preparing to defend itself in a major predatory-pricing trial. American is battling a 1999 Justice complaint accusing it of driving smaller rivals out of its Dallas-Fort Worth hub by illegally slashing ticket prices and saturating the market with new fights...
...were going to be the hub and other schools would be the spokes...We thought that was the best of both worlds," Russo says...
Officials at the hospital, a hub for HMS students to gain on-site medical experience, did not comment on whether the losses will affect medical student funding because of legal concerns...
...hub system faced serious security concerns because of its vulnerability to "packet-sniffing," a practice by which hackers can illegally pick up data not intended for them...