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The article discusses the performance of company USAir Group, Inc., described by the author as the "most profitable airline in the Western World" as of November 21, 1983. Special attention is paid to the attitude of USAir's chairman Edwin Colodny towards deregulation. Other topics addressed include Colodny's plan to improve the corporation's financial performance, the company's profits, and USAir' purchase of Boeing airliners.