The chief executive and two senior officials resigned yesterday from United Airlines, amid a federal investigation into whether the airline gave favors to the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
United began a direct flight between Newark, New Jersey, and Columbia, South Carolina, where the former head of the Port Authority, David Samson, has a vacation home. The route began while he was chairman and ended after he resigned last year. At the same time, United was in negotiations with the Port Authority over airport projects.
Maggie Lake of CNN discusses what the resignations say about United and the airline industry as a whole with Here & Now’s Robin Young.
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- Maggie Lake, business anchor and correspondent for CNN International. She tweets @maggielake.
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