AA to shrink by about 11-12%

[ANstar]

AMR Corporation Announces Significant Capacity Reductions, Aircraft Retirements and Additional Revenue Growth Efforts: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Looks like they are getting rid of 40 odd Regional Jets, 40 odd MD80's and a few A300's.

 

[Evan]

serfty, whats the gist of those 400 posts ? hehehe

Well you know it had to happen you would have thought, but now with the mergers and the shutdowns i would have thought they may end up falling a little short of capacity and now rights to purchase anything.
US aviation had not had a good 10 years.

Some may be happy to see the MD-80's go i think....

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[oz_mark]

serfty, whats the gist of those 400 posts ? hehehe

...or can we have an 'executive summary'!

 

[Evan]

Those change fees are high !!!
Wow, makes the QF fees look almost reasonable.
Limitations on bags is ... well interesting and very USA

Thanks for the summary, i did not want to read all those pages.

 

[openseat]

Obviously AA and UA are running out of cash. It may well be a race to see who can outlast the other.

One wonders if there will be a serious push to re-regulate at least part of the market which could play into the presidential race.

 

[lovetravellingoz]

Obviously AA and UA are running out of cash. It may well be a race to see who can outlast the other.

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If so, one may need to consider the risk of transferring points to AA at present.

I had been considering taking advantage of the "mistake" rate form Amex to SPG (which is thus time limited)......but I think the more prudent thing may be to keep the points at Amex for SQ redemption instead.

 

[Evan]

I am pretty sure AA wont go under ! but it may well suffer.
I think all the smaller airlines are in big big trouble though,... then again if flying new planes they have a per seat $$ advantage that will allow them to price below AA etc and still make money.
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