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Robert Isom, the recently appointed operations chief at US Airways Group Inc., said in a Wall Street Journal article yesterday that one of the biggest reasons for the airline's troubled operations since its merger with America West was that officials from each company lacked "a common focus as to what's important to fix." But Isom says he is trying. He has centralized control over decisions by US Airways' individual airport managers whether to delay a flight. He told the WSJ he hoped to have operations "back on track" in 2008. We'll be watching.