eolesen
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- Jul 23, 2003
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You may question whether US is a major, and that's fine, but right now US is not the endangered airline, AA is. Most of us at US have been through (still going through) the turmoil of a merger. Not pleasant. Not anxious to repeat. Glad to let AA fix its own mess. Or not.
Nobody's questioning if US is a major. Skywest, Jetblue and Hawaiian are considered majors, too.
What's being questioned is the likelihood of a merger. There's nothing complementary about the two networks like you had with HP+US, DL+NW, or CO+UA. There's probably more overlap between AA+US than the other three combined.
AA's certainly losing more money right now than anyone else, but endangered is just a little too dramatic of a description. The stock is endangered, but I don't consider the company as such. Maybe in a year or three if they don't get their crap together.