Originally Posted by
FORTL
American is not good at this sort of thing. TWA aside, they just screw up or dismantle the carrier they buy. Reno Air, AirCal, both gone and their routes abandoned, only to have Southwest move right in to those routes and make money.
I see AirTran surviving and picking up parts of what's left from some of the others that will fail.
Oh contrare, "TWA included". Out of 24,000 TWA employees approx 2000 now collect a paycheck from AMR. And, with pilot furloughes announced in OCT, I'll give you three guesses who
again will shoulder that burden.
St.Louis used to be TWA's mainstay hub, now you can sunbath on the runways since it too was dismantled.
The irony is that some of Air Tran's fuel-efficient 717s were former TWA and I'm guess 60-80 Air Tran pilots are former TWA.
Ok, back to Happy Hour,
FF