Aa/ae An Eventual 50/50 Operation?

[FibberMcGee]

What are the chances that AA will continue to downsize and AE continue to grow? Will AA only fly to the major markets and AE to the rest or has the trend slowed down for a while?

 

[jsn25911]

OMG - I feel like I am repeating history with AA. TWA started downsizing a few years ago - I was surprised that TWA would ever downsize. It seems to me that the more an airline downsizes - the more they start to lose financially. I sure hope AA doesn't follow that path.

 

[DFWCC]

When AA's senior mgt gets AA employess wage and benefits down to AE's then they will merge AE into AA. They will then be able to switch aircraft like you may change channels on tv. I beleive that is their ultimate goal. :angry:

 

[jimntx]

I've posted this before, but no one seems to either remember it, disagree with it, or acknowledge it.

About the time of the '93 f/a strike or shortly thereafter, AMR management made a "confidential" presentation to the NY financial community. In that presentation, AMR management stated that their long-term strategic plan was to move ALL domestic flying except transcons and heavy long-haul (DFW-YVR on 757, for instance) from AA to AE.

I have no idea if this is still their strategic plan (or if they even have one), but some of the moves since 9/11 certainly would fit with that plan.

They are flying Fokkers from ORD to DCA and vice versa, for gods sake. A premium market being given to the crap plane of the fleet! Maybe they expect those passengers to view the 70-seat RJ as a godsend when it arrives. Truth is that we've simply lost those passengers to other airlines flying that route. A friend of mine who lives in the DC area now flies to ORD when non-revving west instead of to DFW because he can ALWAYS get a seat on the DCA-ORD leg.