Originally Posted by cactusmike

Damn, I am agreeing with you again! This must stop!

I would like to offer some additional points. The combined carrier would be equal to UCAL and Delta. The hubs are to stay according to Parker's plan but you will see flying shifted around to wherever more lucrative flying occurs. We have seen that in our merger where LAS closed due to a big increase in costs and flying was added out of CLT and PHL with the closure of LGA and BOS.

Things will change after the merger but they will change for the better. The combined carrier will be a lot stronger and both sides going in have aircraft orders to take. Hortons plan would have the AA pilots stagnate, since lots of those "exciting new orders" will go to replace aging maddogs and 757s. And the increase in code share and RJs will just continue the stagnation, except for the attrition as age 65 kicks in. I have a strong belief that native AA pilots will do well in a SLI because of the larger widebody fleet and the upside for a merger is what drives the APA leadership.