Moving a step closer to their eventual total merger, American Airlines and US Airways have merged their cargo unit. Now, the cargo on these two airlines will be booked on a single airway bill no. There are some interesting statistics which have emerged out of this merger. Every year there will be a revenue input of $800 mn and movement of about 1 bn. pond weight of cargo. 154 facilities have been harmonized and combined with each other fully. The efforts to this end were initiated one year back. This has become the first operational department to be fully integrated in post-merger scenario.

Efforts are afoot to continue the merger of the other important departments of the two airlines, namely, passenger systems, loyalty programs and route networks so that the full merger comes into effect.