Amount of money STL was losing for AA

[LambertMan]

I usually know about most of the ongoings at the quazi-STL hub now, but what I am curious to know is how much money was it actually losing in porportion with the other hubs???? My neighbor, whom works for AA couldnt give me any type of details, but just said it wasnt terrible in relation to them, but couldnt give out financial details for whatever reason. He claims that AA thinks they can make more money strengthening the other hubs and that was the main reason for the downsizing.
Another thing, I know this is hard to believe for some of you, but the cuts at the STL are going to keep coming. You can bet on it. Which in the end, could be a good thing or a bad thing. We''ll see. Any info would be appreciated.

 

[FWAAA]

I don't have the figures you seek, but I am confident that STL's performance was not dismal compared to DFW, ORD, and MIA. AA has been bleeding money systemwide for over two years now, and it wasn't because AA bought TWA.

Every other major legacy network carrier has also been bleeding money at such hubs as DEN, SFO, PIT, ORD, EWR, ATL, MSP, DTW, SLC, DFW, PHL, MEM, and CLT. So slashing STL isn't going to magically cure all that ails AA. If it would, AA would have shut down STL long ago. Shrinking STL just makes more sense than conceding ORD or DFW to the competition. Fares are already low in STL due to WN.

Unfortunately, the events of the past 23 months have undone every reason why AA's purchase of TWA made sense in January, 2001. Imagine what could have been had OBL not orchestrated September 11 - AA might have been flying 1000 mainline jets; instead, nearly 25% of the staff has been furghloughed.