Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

It wasn't spin. The comment was in Q&A and was extemporaneous. Earlier the day it was mentioned that American's management had taken pay concessions off the table in their bankruptcy bargaining and was offering 1.5% pay raises. (American also proposed some really bad scope, which was effectively Delta scope with the limits at 86 seats and 255 large jets, or half mainline).

What has me a little confused is the idea of making 2bn in 2012 while cutting employees.

Again I ask: "What is our core business?" "Then why don't we invest in that?"