C Series Order
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C Series Order
Now that Airbus has completed the C series transaction which makes the C Series aircraft part of the Airbus family, what are your thoughts on AA ordering them to replace the S80’s and 190s? Farborough is coming up in 2 weeks and aircraft manufacturers are scrambling to make deals to announce at the Airshow.
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The stock is down because revenue isn't keeping up with expenses due to fuel and expected capacity reductions/lowering guidence. Earnings go down = lower EPS = lower stock price. Wall Street 101.
Debt isn't a big deal if you make more money on your assets. If you could borrow $1b and earn $100m a year (10%) but only pay $35m in interest (3.5%) wouldn't you borrow as much as you could? That is pretty close to AA's numbers.
Not to mention as rates go up their debt mostly remains fixed and with our cash on hand earning that rate or better it's essentially a wash.
Dent isn't worrisome as long as you have the ability to pay. What does irk me is they didn't use the income to invest in additional revenue but to buy back stock which has little tangible value and won't help us weather a downturn. With the airlines being as cyclical as they are it just doesn't make long term sense. In fact it rarely never does, 95% of buy backs occur at peak stock price.
The other thing is it shows a lack of consideration to the employees. If the company was smart and frugal with their money, when times are bad I'd be fine taking a pay cut to help out. They lost pretty much any goodwill they have given out by pay raises by all the wasted money they've thrown around at stupid #### that doesn't bring in revenue or improve our financial health.
Debt isn't a big deal if you make more money on your assets. If you could borrow $1b and earn $100m a year (10%) but only pay $35m in interest (3.5%) wouldn't you borrow as much as you could? That is pretty close to AA's numbers.
Not to mention as rates go up their debt mostly remains fixed and with our cash on hand earning that rate or better it's essentially a wash.
Dent isn't worrisome as long as you have the ability to pay. What does irk me is they didn't use the income to invest in additional revenue but to buy back stock which has little tangible value and won't help us weather a downturn. With the airlines being as cyclical as they are it just doesn't make long term sense. In fact it rarely never does, 95% of buy backs occur at peak stock price.
The other thing is it shows a lack of consideration to the employees. If the company was smart and frugal with their money, when times are bad I'd be fine taking a pay cut to help out. They lost pretty much any goodwill they have given out by pay raises by all the wasted money they've thrown around at stupid #### that doesn't bring in revenue or improve our financial health.
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On some shorter routes the 767-300 is actually more efficient than the 787 because of this.
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Now that Airbus has completed the C series transaction which makes the C Series aircraft part of the Airbus family, what are your thoughts on AA ordering them to replace the S80’s and 190s? Farborough is coming up in 2 weeks and aircraft manufacturers are scrambling to make deals to announce at the Airshow.
The 76 seat RJ/319 combo has already started to replace some of the S80 routes. Provided this combo is viewed as a financial win it will likely be the preferred course of action compared to a new fleet type (and they get to eliminate an additional fleet type that’s inefficient).
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You’re more likely to see them push for scope relief and upgauge all their 50 seat RJs to 76 (or more) and use those in combination with 319s during peak load times...
The 76 seat RJ/319 combo has already started to replace some of the S80 routes. Provided this combo is viewed as a financial win it will likely be the preferred course of action compared to a new fleet type (and they get to eliminate an additional fleet type that’s inefficient).
The 76 seat RJ/319 combo has already started to replace some of the S80 routes. Provided this combo is viewed as a financial win it will likely be the preferred course of action compared to a new fleet type (and they get to eliminate an additional fleet type that’s inefficient).
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The stock is down because revenue isn't keeping up with expenses due to fuel and expected capacity reductions/lowering guidence. Earnings go down = lower EPS = lower stock price. Wall Street 101.
Debt isn't a big deal if you make more money on your assets. If you could borrow $1b and earn $100m a year (10%) but only pay $35m in interest (3.5%) wouldn't you borrow as much as you could? That is pretty close to AA's numbers.
Not to mention as rates go up their debt mostly remains fixed and with our cash on hand earning that rate or better it's essentially a wash.
Dent isn't worrisome as long as you have the ability to pay. What does irk me is they didn't use the income to invest in additional revenue but to buy back stock which has little tangible value and won't help us weather a downturn. With the airlines being as cyclical as they are it just doesn't make long term sense. In fact it rarely never does, 95% of buy backs occur at peak stock price.
The other thing is it shows a lack of consideration to the employees. If the company was smart and frugal with their money, when times are bad I'd be fine taking a pay cut to help out. They lost pretty much any goodwill they have given out by pay raises by all the wasted money they've thrown around at stupid #### that doesn't bring in revenue or improve our financial health.
Debt isn't a big deal if you make more money on your assets. If you could borrow $1b and earn $100m a year (10%) but only pay $35m in interest (3.5%) wouldn't you borrow as much as you could? That is pretty close to AA's numbers.
Not to mention as rates go up their debt mostly remains fixed and with our cash on hand earning that rate or better it's essentially a wash.
Dent isn't worrisome as long as you have the ability to pay. What does irk me is they didn't use the income to invest in additional revenue but to buy back stock which has little tangible value and won't help us weather a downturn. With the airlines being as cyclical as they are it just doesn't make long term sense. In fact it rarely never does, 95% of buy backs occur at peak stock price.
The other thing is it shows a lack of consideration to the employees. If the company was smart and frugal with their money, when times are bad I'd be fine taking a pay cut to help out. They lost pretty much any goodwill they have given out by pay raises by all the wasted money they've thrown around at stupid #### that doesn't bring in revenue or improve our financial health.
I don’t think anyone thinks new aircraft are stupid to incur debt over.
I don’t think anyone thinks the stock buybacks are a good idea on any level. Especially not the idea of borrowing to do them.
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