I found your editorial on this "last" airline merger akin to a cry to the past, for it seems that after all the massive disruptions there might be at long last something close to stability [Editorial: "The last merger," Feb. 18].
I have been in, and affiliated with, this air travel system of our country since the late 1940s, and since then, I've seen nothing but convulsions here and there, nonstop. Witness the passing of once proud air carriers (Pan Am and Eastern come to mind).
Admittedly, the politics and economics in this country have changed mightily. But does that mean that an industry so necessary for national growth should suffer so?
Oh, well, I am looking to its next chapter with a great deal of interest.
J.E. Masson
Longwood, Fla.
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