As long the paychecks keep coming who cares?

At this point it would do AA some good to use the retirements to realistically align the airline and bases that should be dehubbed like JFK, ord and lax.
AA should play to it's strengths in dfw, dca, phl, Mia and phx and dump the places it struggles in. Jfk, lax and ord are money losing pits that do nothing but cannibalize resources that could be used for the more profitable hubs.

Would also solve the issues of a/c deliveries. aa is not like delta or United, AA is more like the old USAir. A full service Lcc.

JetBlue is doing the same thing and it's working.