Originally Posted by
Sliceback
Dl contact, coming on one year LOS, still trying to get to AA.
With 2,000 guys below you quitting AA to go to DL is crazy. DL guy would gain about 700-800 numbers by coming to AA so a guy with 2,000 guys below him at AA would lose a lot of numbers by going to DL.
DL's fleet is 9 (?) years older than AA's. They have to be replaced at some point. Interest rate is trending up. Yeah, it's troubling seeing AA not following some of the other business models but does anyone want to run a business model with the slogan "come fly us, we have the oldest fleet in the business"?
I'll have to agree with what you said. Our fleet will eventually be one of if not the youngest out there and it will have been financed at insanely low rates of interest. I still don't like the amount of long term debt we have versus Delta or United though. We generate about the same amount of cash as Delta, considerably more than United, but have about 4x the debt that Delta carries.