Dan ReedReed is an award-winning business and financial journalist who has spent three decades focused primarily on the U.S. airline industry and related aviation and travel service companies - plus all the workers, unions and legal and legislative issues reated to those industries. He worked for the Arkansas Democrat (today the Democrat-Gazette) from 1978 to 1981, the Fort Worth StarTelegram from 1981 to 2002, and USA TODAY from 2002-2010. Today he is a senior contributor for FORBES.com, where he continues to focus on the airline and related industries and is a frequent contributor to other aviation and general interest publications. Reed also operates his own communications consulting firm, advising clients on communications, media, and strategy matters. He is the author of American Eagle: The Ascent of Bob Crandall and American Airlines (1993, St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunn Books) and co-author of American Airlines, US Airways, and the Creation of the World's Largest Airline (2014, McFarland). Reed earned his bachelor's degree in Journalism at the University of Arkansas and his master's degree in Divinity at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Read More Read Less