Airline CEOs this week with Trump

With U.S. airline executives meeting this week with President Donald Trump, the White House appears skeptical about a push by carriers and their unions to block competition from a European budget airline.

Pilot unions in particular want Trump to overturn an Obama administration decision that allows Norwegian Air Shuttle to expand service to the U.S. through an Irish subsidiary. Unions say the subsidiary would skirt labor laws and threaten U.S. jobs.

But this week, White House press secretary Sean Spicer suggested that the country would benefit from the arrangement. He said U.S. workers would build the planes and serve them.

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David Koenig can be reached at http://twitter.com/airlinewriter