US Airways' disinformation effort re 'Mad As Hell' petition

UPDATED: US Airways sends a weekly e-mail newsletter to its employees and the media that is usually innocuous and, I suppose, accurate. But today's edition includes a seriously misleading piece of airline-management propaganda about the recent campaign for federal regulation of airline fees that should not go unchallenged. Here verbatim is what the "About US" newsletter said in a Q and A section:

Q. Over the past couple of weeks there has been a wave of news coverage about a website dubbed "Mad As Hell About Hidden Airline Fees." What does this mean?