I wonder if AMR really cares whether Republic or anyone else can do the job as much as they care about the predicted savings to report back to Wall ST.

Case in point, AA's airplanes barely have wifi. Delta on the other hand has wifi on most of their fleet plus the regional fleet as well.

So I'm not entirely convinced AMR management cares too much about their product right now. Most of their bread and butter is from SA so those flights are relatively short.

As far as Eagles longevity problem, the small sample of senior guys I've spoken to say they'll do whatever it takes.

We'll see.