"Consistent with our obligation to review US Airways’
unsolicited proposal, today we, along with representatives of our
Creditors’ Committee, met to listen to US Airways’
presentation concerning US Airways’ proposal to merge with
Delta. While we will fulfill this obligation, we will, as we have
stated, continue to progress toward filing our stand-alone plan by
the end of the year, which would have us emerge from bankruptcy as
a highly competitive, independent and financially sound airline by
mid-2007. Our plan is working and we have tremendous, hard-won
confidence in it."
Source: Delta Air Lines, in a statement issued
to Aero-News after executives at the airline -- along with a
committee representing Delta's creditors -- met with
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