nene

Absolutely! Rome wasn't built in a day.

AAL made a PROFIT and PAID profit sharing, something that would have been INCONCEIVABLE a decade ago!

Everyone needs to enjoy these times, take a vacay and go skiing while there is still snow on the slopes!

ImSoSuss

[size=0pt]It's good enough for AA because we are just a lower tiered legacy airline, so why the complaints? amirite? [/size]

170Till5

oooo boy, you’re very out of touch. Go look up the routes and frequencies anywhere international. Only place AA goes more than once a day is LHR

tallpilot

The complaints are of the form, "don't worry, this is just a fluke and we'll go back to losing money and sucking very soon." The alternative is a little optimism, "let's focus on continuing to improve the quality of the operation and see if something good happens."

Maybe the naysayers are right and will get to gloat. But just maybe we'll beat United again on performance metrics this year. Eventually having a reputation for reliability will help profits.

CRJJ

What we do have is low tier pilots like Mr Sosuss, that we do have.

ImSoSuss

I didn't see anybody say that and if they did then I agree. What I do see is people saying that AA has wasted huge potential in the long hall market by making reckless decisions in the past. In addition are doing little right now to take advantage of the boom. Our profits could and should be HIGHER.

skruts

This is incorrect.

ImSoSuss

Now we have probies on here resorting to personal attacks. Are these the type of people we are hiring these days? I think I may need to volunteer to be an interviewer to weed these type of scum out.

OpieTaylor

They have a more efficient network. Anytime you can fly from point A to point B via CLT or DFW you have an efficiency loss. It’s great for nonreving, but worse for profits.

Delta serves more stations with the efficiency of only one hub, and it clearly yields them more profit.

It has nothing to do with TVs, better snacks, lounges, or free texting. All that stuff is Delta’s way of avoiding a price war to flex the efficiency of their network.

Letting your competition set the price knowing you have the network advantage and adding cherry’s to your product to command a premium is way more lucrative than to try to sell seats cheaper than them and using the network efficiency as an advantage on lowering cost.

AA can advertise their cost per seat mile are equal to Delta’s but AA has to launch more seat miles to get the seat mile cost cost down. AA is required to operate more overlap than Delta in network coverage to have enough seat miles to get the cost down.

That’s also the reason why they are gun shy on heavys, they can’t have a lower or equal heavy cost per seat mile running way less heavy’s.

Scot Kirby is trying to add seat miles to United’s network to lower cost, and up gauging is a way to avoid overlap on his networks.

AA merging last caused substantially more overlap that can not be consolidated.

170Till5

I worked for an AA regional. The international network sucks when trying to non-rev. Only 1 shot at going to a location basically and you have to choose 1 hub to fly out of for that 1 shot to the destination, unless you’re going to LHR