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Did you know... that Richard J. Ferris, CEO of United Airlines, worked a financing plan with Boeing to prevent hostile takeovers of his company?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 03:58, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Richard J. Ferris CEO of United Airlines worked a financing scheme with Boeing Corporation to prevent hostile takeovers of his company? Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-airlines-chief-tried-to-create-a-one-stop-travel-shop-11642690802
- ALT1: ... that Richard J. Ferris CEO of United Airlines worked a financing scheme of planes from Boeing Corporation by paying $700 million in convertible notes that could be exchanged for 16% of common stock to avoid hostile takeovers of his company? Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-airlines-chief-tried-to-create-a-one-stop-travel-shop-11642690802
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cece Carlucci

5x expanded by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 03:29, 21 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:08, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@TonyTheTiger: Re-introduced the citations. Someone had edited after my last edit and the edits had dropped the citations. Should be good to go now. Please have a look at your convenience. Ktin (talk) 16:58, 21 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]