Originally Posted by
JetPiedmont
I didn't realize AA had such a big loss in Q1. Thought UAL had the 500+ million dollar loss, and AA was around 380 million.
It might have been, when I calculated those figures I was going off of AA's press release at the time, and I don't remember what the number was and just went off of my faltering short term memory in my post. I was thinking it was $587 but you might be right, that might've been UAL.
The math stands though, AA would've had to generate another $50 per roundtrip to offset their loss in the 1Q. That equates to a 25% fare hike across the board, and that was with Jet-A running $3/gal, not the $4+/gal it is now.