Cleveland's agreement with United Airlines and Continental to keep at least 90 percent of their Hopkins flights for two years after the merger will help city avoid Cincy's plight, a recent Bloomberg article states. That city's airport lost 140 flights after Delta's purchase of Northwest.

"To an economy like Cleveland, that kind of stability is critical in terms of helping us rebound from this economic downturn," Ricky Smith, the city's airport director, is quoted as saying in the article.

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