Originally Posted by
cactusmike
No, we would have been fine with our lower costs absent the merger. We had competed quite well with SWA for all those years. The only time we really lost money was the 747 program and that's what put us into ch11. We made money during the CH11 process and after until 9/11. Then we made money again.
Also, without the US Airways merger we would have been available to merge with anyone else, which would have been vastly preferable.
Doesn't your flying today consist of 25% East flying, and if the East went out of business, and AA DAL UAL SWA... picked up all that flying becase AWE didn't have the cash or planes, your flying today would be 25% less, assuming you were still in business.
Just talking ****, but you act like the East has hurt you so much, and you are entitled to come fly A330 and 767 to Europe, thats Bull****.