Who's willing to make a bet that Inouye was approached by Aloha & Hawaiian to do this? The article only says that the provision was added by him prior to the >announced< proprosed merger. (Key word is announced) > Hawaiian Airlines, which announced plans to merge with Aloha Airlines last > month, says the two airlines are considering taking advantage of a provision > slipped into the aviation security law that would allow them to legally > share operations without completing a merger. > > The little-noticed provision was added by Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, more > than two months before the two airlines announced their proposed merger. David Ross http://damiross.go.cc http://home.earthlink.net/~damiross/airlines.html http://home.earthlink.net/~damiross/books.html