United now needs approval of its application for $1.8 billion in loan guarantees.
United eventually provided oral approval.
Jim Philpot, a spokesman for the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American's 11,000 pilots, said that United helped win approval from its pilots for its acquisition of US Airways by awarding them a rich new contract last summer.
In a separate deal, American also confirmed yesterday that it intended to buy about one-fifth of the assets of US Airways to smooth the way for United to win approval from the Justice Department for its proposed $4.3 billion acquisition of US Airways.
United failed to get required state approval for those deals and it used generic contracts from other states that did not meet New York requirements, Ms. Shure said.
Solskjær's appointment was met with universal approval from United's former greats.
The research uses pre-existing public data sources and so did not require ethics approval under United State human-subjects research regulations.
The seven members of the project China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and the United States gave their final approval of the project's design, cost, and schedule in July.
United said it was also seeking government approval to halt service at two Virginia airports, Newport News and Shenandoah/ Staunton.
United's application is based in part on the approval by its unions of $5.8 billion in contract concessions over the next five and a half years.
United, a unit of the UAL Corporation, must get bankruptcy court approval of the statement before asking creditors to vote on restructuring.
