I belive when most people refer to Eagle operating Airbuses and other aircraft of that size they are refering to the Executive certificate. In the late 90's AMR combined all their feeders into American Eagle holdings and under that holding company they kept two out of four certificate. Simmons now known as American Eagle Airlines (currently operating jets) and Executive Airlines this is where the ATRs are assigned to. All of the ATRs are scheduled to be returned by 1st qt 2013. The executive certificate is worth a lot of money do to its capabilities, that certificate is approved for over water opearations, GPS and most importantly international. That certificate can operate from North American all the way to South America and anywhere in between. People are concerned about this because if American spins off Eagle to the shareholders then American Eagle Holdings will no longer be controlled or control AMR, the American Eagle certificate can be a feeder for American Airlines but Executive Airlines could get larger airplanes and be a new code share partner with a certificate that is more capable than any if the LCC outhere to include Southwest (I am only refering to what the certificate is certified for). This is what I belive people refer to as Eagle getting Airbuses and if not people need to pay attention because we this is a very realist scenario if management was going to do it.