Originally Posted by
Happyflyer
Why is this being billed as a negative. They parked 3 fleet types. Have the 737 sims just been sitting idle? They announced code shares with Alaska and Jet Blue and everyone was worried they were outsourcing AA jobs. Now AA has more demand than they can accommodate.
Are JetBlue and Alaska booking more emplanements causing supply shortages? Did AA revenue mgmt intentionally build a more robust schedule for June get scared and drop prices? Has AA market share against Delta and United gone up 3% before 1% cancelations?
Seems very reasonable they held off on training the junior pilots because it was unclear if they would be needed past Cares3 expiring.
Did Max coming back add to sim demand?
Seems like a misplaced frustration to say AA just sat on its rear end and is now kicking the cash out the door because it’s too difficult to pick it up.
AA and Doug Parker continue kicking cash out the door. The biggest kick of cash was when genius Parker was snapping up billions of stock at 45 bucks a share and publicly stating the airline would never be unprofitable again. Until he gets launched, it's just going to be a continued slide to ever new lows of revenue and performance metrics.