Antitrust...History...Boeing and United Airlines.

***In 1934, a scandal erupted over how the former Postmaster General had granted air mail routes to the nation's biggest carriers. The Roosevelt administration canceled all contracts for those airlines which had benefited under the arrangement and passed new antitrust legislation. As a result, the government forbid airlines and aircraft manufacturers from being owned by the same company. With aviation holding companies forced to break apart, BAT would have to survive on its own. Boeing Air Transport, thus, became United Air Lines.***

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/companies/united.html

In the current US governmental environment Boeing or some telecom media giant could try to buy the Planet from out form under us and there would be no antitrust action aginst them!

--Chris Vancil