Originally Posted by
DontPickIt
You have to look at the data and see if any of this rings true. Is UAL management and vision putting the airline well behind the competition? Is this type of leadership killing an already sick airline? I think the answers are clear
We just made $900M in the 2nd quarter and going to make over $1B in the 3rd quarter. Both will be quarterly records. That's "data".
And I don't care how much DAL said they made because they aren't taking 787s and 35 guppies this year, when 1st year capital depreciation is at its highest.
Why does no one compare us to Southwest, the largest US domestic airline, where we almost doubled their 2nd quarter profit of $475M.
United could certainly perform a lot better, but in our 75+ year history we just set an all-time financial performance record.
I'm not thrilled with the performance, but we are doing damn good IMO.
Let's keep things in perspective, please.