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I predict that both hubs will be abandoned. US-AA will build a great big new super hub at Trenton.

I still have no interest in you, and have always found your Pro-Delta stuff to be a bit overboard as well as annoying. You chimed in on many US posts long before the AA topic came about. You are now going over the top in trying to convince whoever you can that AA is better off without US, even though credible sources are saying otherwise. Are you in touch with any of the creditors on the UCC to know where they stand on the merger?  I have seen many of your page long Delta love letters posed on their boards, and have often wondered how/why anyone to be so Pro-company while claiming not to work for them. I think that you have also bashed SWA & AT prior to becoming consumed with the AA/US topic. I have been on these boards for nearly 10 years, and have NEVER seen anyone so vocal about any airline such as you are. If it has any possible effect on Delta, you are on it like a fly on a fresh turd. If you honestly have no ties to Delta in any way shape or form, you should seek mental help. You must have some hidden motivating factor that drives you to spend a good portion of your life typing all of this rhetoric about the airlines.

Are you even in the Airline Industry?
Did you previously work for Delta?
Do you want to work for Delta?
Are you working with one of Delta's PR firms?
Are you a lobbyist for Delta?
Are you really Richard Anderson, or a bootlicker of his?
Are you one of AA's Creditors?
Are your working for Horton?
Are you just some poor lonely guy who has nothing else to do, except post here?
Are you just dong this because you saw Delta L-1011's when you were a kid?
Are you a college student working a degree in airline management?
If you can't answer YES to any of these questions, pick up the phone NOW, and call for help.
If you hurry, perhaps you can land a managers job at that new Delta refinery outside of Philly.....

No commuting employee should be given preference over another employee on active status, it is an employee's choice weather or not they live where they work like most other employees have to do. It's not my problem if you want to live in Birmingham and work in LAX/ORD/DFW/CLT/PHL. I'll be darned if the last seat goes to a "commuter" and I have a wedding or other family event or paid for vacation to go to.  Funny how only pilots and flight attendants feel this way...

It's nice to hear that AA gives retirees the same priority as employees, all based on date of hire. As an aspiring retiree, I think that's the fair way to do it. The only time a pass riding employee should be given priority is if he/she is commuting to work. Not from work. There should be a specific category to cover employees going to work ahead of employees/retirees doing liesure travel.