Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Yes they are:
AMR survives, way lower costs, lower debt, new jets with no mtc costs. No room to bargain. We agree to a contract lower than LUV. LUV is the top and stagnates or takes cuts. Patterning is dead.
AMR mergers with LCC and or B6. Nuf said.
AMR needs to survive, foreign ownership is allowed, in an election year. Bipartisan approval, and Transnational airlines take shape.
AMR is parted out. Has the least effect on the DAL pilot group, but the impact is far reaching for all pilots.
Suffice to say, Arpey holding on is not good for the industry or its pilots. Their filing is the final chapter in industry consolidation that we have all been waiting on though.
One more thing: I would be floored if DAL did not go after JAL again.
Some guy on CNBC says AMR wouldn't want ALL of LCC. I see AMR and the East side of LCC going one way, and maybe B6 and AWA going the other, giving B6 a true West Coast hub other than slot controlled LGB. Parker would still go to run AMR, and that would be that. The only ones left, other than SWA, would be AK, F9, NK, Virgin America, Hawaiian, and Sun Country. Eventually there will only be a few big International players from the US, and maybe 2 LCCs. Our Country's airlines will have to compete with the Emirates of the World, who just bought 50 new 773s and has 90 A380s coming, with hot FAs. Hard to compete with that.