Majors Question
08-09-2008, 12:40 PM
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Majors Question
When you look at the International ops of say CAL & DAL, why or what are the reasons behind UAL & AA not serving more destinations in Europe and the Middle East (India)? Is it true that Int destinations are where the money is operationally right now? How bout a scenerio where AA or CAL drops all but maybe 25% of its domestic flights and buys SWA?? Shift all capacity to Int citites??? Still waiting to see AA make a move to reduce the age of its fleet. 787?? More 777's?
08-09-2008, 01:03 PM
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I think AA likes to focus on the Europe hub cities like London, Rome, Paris, etc and then have passengers connect on the oneworld affiliate carriers to continue from there. AA is big on the hub-and-spoke route system and this benefits all oneworld carriers by having these focus cities instead of flying to scattered destinations.
08-09-2008, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by grant123
How bout a scenerio where AA or CAL drops all but maybe 25% of its domestic flights and buys SWA???
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08-09-2008, 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
None of the legacy carriers have the capital to buy SWA. If anything, SWA has the cash to buy a legacy or two.
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The market capitalization of SWA was, last time I bothered to add the numbers up (back in the very, very, very dark days of $140/bbl), more than DAL, NWA, UAL, and AMR combined.
08-09-2008, 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
None of the legacy carriers have the capital to buy SWA. If anything, SWA has the cash to buy a legacy or two.
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08-09-2008, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by grant123
...why or what are the reasons behind UAL & AA not serving more destinations in Europe...? Is it true that Int destinations are where the money is operationally right now?
Keep in mind that one reason oil has plummeted is that the global economic expansion has recently shown some disturbing signs of weakness.
We may get to keep lower oil and fuel prices for a while, but they will come with some consequences.
08-09-2008, 07:57 PM
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Yep...
Few people remember how DAL almost lost its butt the first time. They bought some of Pan Am's European routes and Europe had a recession. Durn near put them in Bankruptcy. You never know what the right move is in the long term-best to have a balanced approach and avoid putting all of one's eggs in one basket.
-I doubt many people there now have any clue about that whole saga-and it really wasn't that long ago.
-So nice, they'll do it twice!
-I doubt many people there now have any clue about that whole saga-and it really wasn't that long ago.
-So nice, they'll do it twice!
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