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Capital Punishment: Southwest's Digestion Challenge

By Daniel Joshua Rubin – Updated Apr 6, 2017 at 11:19AM EST

A look at the lighter side of the recent airline merger.

In today's comic, Fool contributor Daniel Joshua Rubin takes on the Southwest Airlines' (NYSE: LUV) acquisition of AirTran Holdings (NYSE: AAI).



For analysis on the Southwest-AirTran merger, read more here:

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