US Airways, Continental, Delta, and United are supposed to be in the black this year.
- Delta has merged with Northwest. Delta plans on having a profitable 2Q.
- United has gotten it's act together and is running a pofitable operation.They're going to merge with Continental to create the worlds largest airline. They're supposed to be in the black.
- Continental will merge with United. They joined Star Alliance. They're supposed to be in the black this year.
- US airways will focus on it's core strengths in Philadelphia, Charlotte, and Washington DC and cut LGA and Boston. US airways will turn a profit in 2Q.
unfortunately, I suspect IBMal's predictions aren't going to be too far off the mark...
i'm sorry to say that I too agree. In the case of UA and US, their recent BK did the trick. For UA, it was in spite of mis-management. For US it was because of the subsequent merger with, and the management of, America West. In the case of CO, it was their subsequent management teams.
As a former stockholder (but one who had bailed at a loss on the way down), I applauded AA's decision. But now, as a long and loyal customer
and in hindsight, I think it was a mistake.
Employee relations would be quite different. The cabin crew work rules would be significantly changed and Jim's 'pet peeves' would no longer exist. The pilot's Scope clause would not be so restrictive as to numbers and seating of aircraft. There would not be PUPs, Shared Sacrifice, Pull Together, Negotiated Give-ups, etc to complain about.
Maybe AA management in BK would have
even been wise enough to institute geographical MX pay differentials and also between Line/OH, instead of using the unique complexity of the RLA that practically locks in the non-democratic legacy former NYC transit union TWU, in order to maintain AMT pay at an overall lower but inequitable basis.
Somehow I doubt that either Carty or Arpey would have seen this as an opportunity. I think Crandall might.