This year's fuel price spike prevented US major airlines from improving profitability year-over-year in the third quarter, but the country's seven largest airline companies still earned $1.09 billion in combined net income for the three months ended Sept. 30, calculated.
Revenue grew 9.7% to $36.5 billion and operating profit was $2.49 billion...
United Continental Holdings (UCH), parent of merger partners United Airlines (UA) and Continental Airlines (CO), posted a best-among-US majors third-quarter net profit of $653 million.
So one company--ours--accounts for 60% of the entire industries' very profitable year and CEO shows us his empty pockets and pleads poverty.
The money is there for a contract.