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Total capex since the merger has been around $25b IIRC and total stock purchased has been $12b.
Assuming a rate of around 5%, that's around $50m a month in interest charges.
AA has $7B+ in liquidity, that money is making considerably more than 5%.
What should concern all of us is the same thing that concerns all the Wall Street analysts...not debt but revenue.
In 2018 - Delta made 107% of AA's revenue - while only flying about 90% of the ASMs. That is what is driving the majority of the gap between AA and the industry.