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Why American Airlines appears ripe for acquisition
As American Airlines seeks to slash jobs and pensions to help steer its way through bankruptcy reorganization, rival carriers are eyeing it, looking at whether they should buy the struggling airline. (travel.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
You know, what is puzzling to me, and they just may not have gotten to it yet other than some aircraft types, but that is the fact that nothing has been said or done with Eagle yet. I would have figured that it would have been among the first things to go and a contract put in to replace the routes.
my dad got an email that says eagle is supposed to get e175s all that is doing is taking flying away from the american pilots.
Well, it will if they put them on any of the AA routes but it shouldn't if they leave the route stucture intact as you have more capacity on the big iron and they have already done enough route realignment and flight cutting to max out capacity on most lanes. I was doing some fill in for Eagle and the weekend prior to the bankruptcy, pulled a KATL turn from KDFW on one of the 80's for AA. Haven't done anything since then as so many retired and furloughed guys are out there. They have to run the whole roster before they can even look outside. I'm not really wanting to jump in that mess right now anyway. My sympathy is with your dad and those others as who knows what is going to happen. Hopefully, with all the retirement he will be able to go ahead and advance to Captain and hang on until they come out on the other side
Why would DL dehub SLC? if they were going to do that, I don't they would've made the investment in the new SLC terminal that is slated to begin in 2018
Actually, if you look at http://www.slcairport.com/cmsdocuments/TRP-1-17-12.pdf (page 29 of the PDF), you will see that DL does not have a commitment in place yet. It may have a LEASE, but leases can be rejected in bankruptcy for a 15% penalty...
What I have never figured out, I guess it was in the bankruptcy, is why they dehubbed KDFW. They were there from day 1 I think, and I really think that they are making a mistake in not trying to keep the old NWA hub at KMEM alive as opposed to try and shovel all into KATL which is at capacity. AA is already making inroads now from KDFW to KATL and doing pretty good with it although the arrival of SWA will be interesting. The measure on it all will be how much is local and how much is connector. Either way it goes, I don't see DAL dehubbing SLC, BUT, anything is possible
It wouldn't make sense for DL to dehub SLC when it's there only hub in western United States. Delta may have a lot of flights into LAX but it isn't a hub according to their website http://news.delta.com/index.php?s=18&cat=47 but I can see CVG going away since they JFK ATL MSP and DTW in the area. I misspoke on DL at SLC, sorry about thanks for the correction. I doubt the AA brand is going anywhere and I doubt AA is going anywhere, I think they'll come out on top but they'll have to make some serious changes.
CVG is pretty much gone. It is not a shadow of it's former self, as is KMEM. If it wasn't for FedEx, KMEM would be dead. ComAir killed CVG when they thumbed their nose at Furloughed DAL pilots during the bankruptcy and ASA has reaped the rewards.