Originally Posted by
Wingtips
FLy728, I still do not see any real point to your post. You need to also remember, that AMR is in ch11 court, not American Airlines, it is American Airlines and American Eagle. That means the judge has an equal job to both airlines. Saying that the judge can sell out Eagle flying to the lowest bidder, is like saying the judge could as easily say all domestic AA flying should be code shared to J6. This judge has to basically see both companies almost equally, as they make up two halves of AMR corp. I think Compass is the closest thing to Eagle out there. However in the big picture this is seriously uncharted waters, since AMR put all the eggs in this self owned basket, and now in court they will need to claim they suddenly want to apply one rules to their flying, but not the same to the flying they pay for to do the same thing,!! yet fully own and recently tried to steal the planes from on paper.....this is on top of the ALPA lawyers playing my card in the court.
You do make a good argument and your right my post isnt totally applicable more or less the point is that NWA airlink was only a couple airlines with Mesaba being the majority and I gaurantee they would have endured the same fleet reductions if they were owned by NWA at the time, making it pretty similar to AMR and airlines will do whatever it takes to bring costs down, including starting new airlines, cutting flying down from their own house to get cheaper feed, etc. Also it was a little history lesson you should be aware of. The judge does get requests to do things from AMR, which he then evaluates, but they have openly said they want to rid themselves of Eagle, and diversify/ get cheaper feed. Again though they could go the way of Compass but like I have said before they are in BK to cut costs not acquire new airplanes for Eagle, they will let others bid for the flying and acquire planes themselves. Obviously the fleet renewal is new airplanes but they cant really bid out A320s and 737s to cheaper feed...