I don’t know if that’s a personal attack? He wasn’t criticizing his looks or personality. He was correctly pointing out that AA has been an operational and strategic disaster ever since Isom took the helm. I would be hard pressed to come up with even one significant win during his tenure. Almost every strategic move has been a failure.

It seems as if even the analysts have stopped asking the hard questions during earnings calls. They just lob up some softballs for Isom and team. The industry has evolved from the big three to the big two and everyone else.

Let’s see how we do tomorrow. UAL increased revenue by 10%+ and booked net income of $700 million. Many thought they were growing too fast and in an era of global uncertainty they would lose money hand over fist. Here we are in a war time environment with a fuel crisis and they are still printing money. Maybe an army of high CASM RJs flying to low $ markets and farming out a large chunk of our international network to JV partners wasn’t the winning formula.