Originally Posted by
texaspilot76
Your scope does not cover US Airways' contract. They will use the Airways certificate to operate the flights.
First of all, you're waaaaay ahead of yourself here. AA can't just buy the airways certificate and suddenly operate using it. It doesn't work that way. They would have to operate LCC & AA as 2 airlines until a Single Operating Certificate was obtained(1.5 years MINIMUM)
Second, I don't see AA burning cash just to buy LCC. I suspect the only way it would happen is to do a deal like the NWA/DAL merger, a stock swap. Then, there is the mess of overlap, fleet differences, and DOJ Approval.(Thus could be the nail in the coffin)
Originally Posted by
texaspilot76
Profit is profit, no matter which way you look at it. Anyway that is a whole different subject.
By this logic you're still wrong because DAL had an operational profit last qtr.