WT is a Delta hack who has perversely aligned himself with the "NO Way US" crowd at AA by not just hinting at our eventual demise--who knows it may or may not happen to us or even to DL--but by continually asserting how fruitless any hook up between AA and US would be. I suspect that this Deltaphile's motives are rooted more in his Deltalusions of grandeur than any impartial or informed analysis of the industry. Nothing would peeve him more than so see a transaction between AA and US--a possibility that I have no real position on--because he is the one fantasizing about acquiring the American assets that he thinks would help to buttress the Delta Empire that he fawns about. In post #95 he states: "right now, there are a number of strategic possibilities on the horizon including Virgin Atlantic, AS, and potential AA asset acquisitions... some of that may play out during 2012 and that also be part of why DL has no major strategic growth plans since right now putting money in the bank is the most important thing to do." A true vulture in vicar's clothing.
Apparently he is unaware that, despite the curtain he hides behind as he spews his all-knowing Deltaphilian drivel, he is transparent, disingenuous and phony, and every bit as ineffectual and insignificant as the wizard himself.