Originally Posted by
rickair7777
AA is interesting right now because their behavior appears different than the other two. To me it's slightly alarming that the big three management teams are not coming to similar conclusions... different Ouija Boards.
I finally through in the towel on even trying to predict the future but AA seems to have maybe found the softest landing. We are still looking at being a 20 plus percent smaller airline and we are progressing to that goal. The difference being we were truly understaffed of the MAX had been allowed to fly again we could not have handled it. We have been understaffed for a while. Add to aggressive buy outs and and organic retirements and we may escape with 1000 or less furloughs. I’d be surprised if we furloughed no one but I have been wrong before. The other positive for AA was we have by far and away the least exposure to Europe and Asia and a strong domestic presence. That can account for us cutting say five percent less then DAL or UAL.