I just bought tickets for a vacation and AA was very competitive in terms in price (first class and coach) and schedules compared to every other airline for the cities I looked at. As long as the debt situation doesn't blow up in our face and cabotage restrictions remain in place AA will be just fine.

Also buying tickets for vacation to Japan from west coast. Found UAL slightly cheaper, have hotel room in downtown Tokyo for $73 a night for two weeks so going biz class.

I don't post this to start a ****ing match. Just wanting to add the reasoning/advantages behind an older fleet.

Delta may have the oldest fleet of the legacies, but we have the highest reliability and the lowest maintenance cost unit compared to the others. Oldest doesn't mean squat when the interiors are refurbed to look brand new. If you don't believe me, look at the comments from our CFO recently to counter Parker's alleging AA is catching up on the revenue side. Older aircraft would be best in an economic downturn as they can be parked with practically no cost (paid for) versus delaying or even cancelling orders. Or they could be parted out thus reducing overall maintenance costs further to maintain the exist fleet. There are many advantages to having an older fleet and as long as we maintain our strong financial and operational performances I don't see why we should upset the apple cart.

The latest from the company is all 88s will be gone by 2020. Our C-series order can be converted to the -300 model after the first 35 -100s come online. The -300 is an 88 replacement. We got a ridiculous deal on this first batch from Bombardier apparently. The only thing that remains to be seen is their operational reliability. If they prove their worth, I see another big follow-on order and thus completing the retirements of the 90s and older, smaller Airbuses.


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It's a gamble either way.

In deed it is and I actually forgot to add that same sentiment in my post. If only foresight was 20/20!


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Go to Envoy and make history...

Flow back,

Compressor stall,

You would be at the top of the seniority list.

Woohoo.

Safe journey...Sushi

Wow, you scored on the hotel room! Tokyo can be expensive. Enjoy your vacation, that's a great city to visit.

Yea man I can see the thought process behind both. Hopefully we all make tons of money and stay gainfully employed who cares what we're flying.

Accommodations - The New Sanno

Gotta book in advance which I did. Been to Bangkok many times, never Tokyo.

Dont waste your jetlag... when your wide awake on the 4am after you arrive, get a cab down to the tsukiji fish market in Tokyo, well worth the visit to the worlds largest wholesale fish market. They'll have tuna auctions at 5am that will have fish going for over $1000 and the whole market will be wrapped up by 9am. Everything that lives in the sea (including a whole lot of animals I had no idea lived in the sea, and I scuba dive) will be on display live for the restaurants/sushi cooks to peruse for purchase and delivery that day.