Originally Posted by AAL24

there is a ton of retirements at AA. You will move up the list faster. The one gotcha that few mention is AAL has slowly but surely transformed itself into a primarily narrowbody airline. Our percentage of WB jets is much lower than UAL. With the arrival of the 321Xlr and more 787s the 777 fleet will be at risk of being parked. I doubt our balance sheet puts us in position to order significantly more large acft. If you want to be a 320/737 CA go to AA. If you want to be a wide body CA or FO go to UAL.