Widow's Son

AA,

When the Wright amendment goes away, which it will, it will force AMR to look at every aspect of its service and learn to compete on service, schedule, safety, passenger experience, and price. LUV has a cost advantage on fuel, but AMR has a cost advantage on wages. AMR will dominate at DFW and LUV will dominate at DAL just like happens today at Chicago between ORD and MDW.
When AA quits whining and starts offering the traveling public what they want, like pillows, they will do fine.
Doing away with the Wright Amendment may just end up being the best thing to ever happen to AMR in the long run. It has created a welfare entitlement mentality that is inherently debilitating. If they really thought they had a product that could compete they wouldn't care what happened to the Wright Amendment or anything else. All the dire predicitions of what would happen if the WA were changed just appear to everyone, including AA employees, exactly what they are; Tacit admissions that AA can't compete. I think they can compete. There will always be a need for full service global carriers and with all of its advantages, AA really should be the most successful, but they aren't going to convince anyone else if they can't convince themselves, which is why all the crying over DAL looks so ridiculous. They need to strap on a pair and act like a megacarrier that welcomes competition rather than fears it.