Say goodbye to US Airways' call sign as operations combine with American

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The American Airlines merger that began in December 2013 became one step closer to completion on Wednesday, as US Airways goes the way of TWA and PanAm before it.

The Federal Aviation Administration now recognizes a single call sign for the American Airlines Group Inc., and US Airways' "Cactus" sign — adopted by the airline in 2005 after merging with America West — has been retired, replaced instead by "American."

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“There are no light-switch type transitions for virtually anything but the call sign,” American's chief operating officer Robert Isom told Bloomberg. “The [single operating certificate] date is really a recognition that everything has come together.” Read more...

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