Originally Posted by InformationEcho

The only thing AMR could have up their sleeves is a Chapter 11 filing.

They should have done it in 2003 and gotten it over with, but the stubborn insistence of their management to "Maintain control" has now painted them into a corner they can not easily get out of.

Their current strategy of "Shrinking to profitability" is one that will not work and history is littered with examples of failed airlines that attempted to do just that.


DL probably will end up with T-9 as Arpey and his team make a "Strategic Retreat" from the largest air transport market in the world.

Sad.