Originally Posted by AA777-ER
Airline Industry Select a New Industry
1-36 of 36 companies. Data as of 11/8/2005
Ticker Name Market Capitalization TTM Sales $ Employees
MktCap Weighted Average 6,024.317 8,642.627 37789
DLAKY Deutsche Lufthansa AG (ADR) 6,365.080 21,948.381 90373
AMR AMR Corporation 2,434.748 20,085.000 92100
Now just add cost of [borrowing] long term and short term debt, the debt itself, operating costs, labor costs, RASM, CASM, etc..... and you might see why even with 20B revenue, AMR is close to a breakeven operation at best (just like the rest of the industry).