Originally Posted by
Fly782
Its all about lean and cheap operations these days. 1 efficient fleet type and JR pilots, just like Eagle. Don't worry you guys will decimate the competition.
I think what Rick was referring to was that if a good enough ASA was to be offered by AMR for someone else to take Eagle but have a large amount of AMR's feed moving forward someone might bite. The whole deal that we are so profitable and all that crap I don't buy it, AMR loves doing crazy accounting and shuffling money around, with that in mind SKW, RAH or whoever will not rent class room space from AMR at their cost, will not pay for simulator time at the rates AMR will want to impose. AMR is able to shuffle a lot of money in and out of Eagle. Eagle is just another regional who happens to own a lot of 50 seaters as well as a senior pilot group (but others acre catching up specially the ones under the SKW umbrella). Eagle in the open marker would not be kicking @$$ and taking names due to the above monitored but under the AMR umbrella Eagle has a lot of value for AMR. Eagle is not worth a lot but it's worth a lot to AMR, if AMR wanted to rid themselves of Eagle they would have done. Don't tell me that they care about the share holders because that's not what CH11 does, AMR has and will make decisions that to us might not make sense but AMR currently is spending a lot of money in Eagle and most of the things being done probably would be wasted if Eagle merged with someone else. It is what it is, from the outside looking in we seem hosed, from the inside looking in we seem hosed but there are a lot of moving parts and we will just read about it on the USA Today.