Originally Posted by
eaglefly
This is absolutely hilarious !
Some of you yahoo's already got AA sliced and diced and are already calculating your next bids and advancement schedules.
God, I love airline pilots. Complete idiots, but a blast to watch and listen too.
One thing you must understand as our Strategic Planners do, we saw this coming over a year ago. Does AMR fragment? Depends, but with DAL, TPG, Black Canyon, LCC, and eventually UCAL and LUV(wanting in Oneworld in AMR's spot) all planning for AMR's assets etc, it makes it very difficult for them to restructure in CH11. The creditors see better risk with one less carrier and a better value on the existing debt though fragmentation.
APA has been looking at this, as well as many ALPA carriers. What is important is to understand the implications of any action, and as a result of about a handful of possibilities the results of ever one of those. It is not gloating or wishing ill will on the APA pilots, it is planning for the facts and scenarios that every pilot group including APA faces.
DAL was put in this position in late 2006. Parker and Anderson know that Parker waited to long. With AMR going to court to list what leases they want to ax, now is the time to pounce. It is also the time for the pilot groups to fine tune their plans and responses. Again, it is the business side of the deal. Reality is that a guy like me may see the street from this sort of deal. It will not be end to end, the bases are too close to each other. That is the reality of where the M and A scenarios are at this time. Ugly? yes, Fun? No.