Opportunity Cost - AA vs UAL?
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I don’t mean that they will be making more than 5% in annual interest, I'm simply saying that >5% is a hurdle rate for any capital expenditure.
Thanks for pointing me to the 10-q, although I spent 5 years in planning at AA; revenue management and fleet planning. Treasury/Capital Planning, was not my area of expertise. Doug reiterates on every investor call that AA has a liquidity of $7B, and I took that at face value - I was wrong.
Thanks for pointing me to the 10-q, although I spent 5 years in planning at AA; revenue management and fleet planning. Treasury/Capital Planning, was not my area of expertise. Doug reiterates on every investor call that AA has a liquidity of $7B, and I took that at face value - I was wrong.
That would be like taking out a 5% mortgage while having the cash in the bank earning 3%, and leveraging up to the hilt.
It's the opposite of using OPM and no one ever got rich doing it that way.
If you could borrow at 5% but earn 10%+ using that money, you'd borrow as much as you could, right?
The issue with AA right now (and probably forever) is there is limited amounts we can grow our core business. AA so far has not taken on risk to grow their businesses outside of a standard 2%-3% per year. They are laser focused on just transporting passengers.
As a stockholder what you want to see is a company that can continue growing...it's what you pay the leadership for and why you own stock. AA is not exciting and has little to no growth in it, hence the low multiple on the stock.
#42
I have and will continue to pay cash out of my pocket not to ride on deadheads scheduled on AA anymore, because I want to get there on time and be able to at least charge a phone or laptop. I’m not the only one either.
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That’s incorrect. Take a good look at the annual reports. Delta by the way is taking 80 new aircraft a year without any significant increase in debt.
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And with retirement of the Mad Dog (as well as some other older aircraft in the next few years), the American fleet will become younger on average (or at least hold its own as time marches on)?
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American already has the youngest fleet of the 3 legacies.
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With a fleet of 1000, you need to replace 50 a year anyway due to reaching 20 years of service.
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That's nice except Delta spends hundreds of millions less a year on maintenance and we continue to burn more gas YOY. So far, we haven't seen a benefit from spending all that capital. Plus Delta has almost zero maintenance cancels.
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As a passenger, I want a reliable product that has at least some amenities. AA isn’t delivering on that either with arbitrarily cancelled flights, random delays, no power ports on some main cabin extra flights, FAs hoarding bin space above the bulkhead.
I have and will continue to pay cash out of my pocket not to ride on deadheads scheduled on AA anymore, because I want to get there on time and be able to at least charge a phone or laptop. I’m not the only one either.
I have and will continue to pay cash out of my pocket not to ride on deadheads scheduled on AA anymore, because I want to get there on time and be able to at least charge a phone or laptop. I’m not the only one either.
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