FrugalFlyerv2.0 said:
Translation: There is no evidence anywhere that will show that what I have written is correct. I fabricated a lie. I am a fraud and a liar. People are onto me. I therefore need to change the subject to anything else so that attention is diverted and that my foolishness doesn't stand out like a sore thumb. How can I try to disparage some carrier and at the same time try to pass off my DL is the best narrative.
you are as bad with languages as you are with numbers.
I said I don't care whether you believe DL's benefit from VS or not.
AA execs themselves said
Julie Yates (Analyst - Credit Suisse):
Okay, understood. And then on the transatlantic, you mentioned that this is going to be the only positive region in the first quarter on unit revenues. Is there a risk to this given some of the competitive capacity additions from Delta and Virgin Atlantic? I believe they are increasing capacity about 10% on some of their routes.
Doug Parker (Chairman, CEO):
Well, there's always a risk to it. We feel pretty good about that forecast. The UK remains relatively strong, which is where we have the bulk of our capacity. And we have cut capacity a lot. So while we said PRASM is going to be up, that is on the back of a 7%-8% -- I think you said 8% across the Atlantic production in capacity. So PRASM is going to be a based on that. So we feel -- we think that's what will happen, but obviously we can't know for sure until we get through the quarter.
Scott Kirby (President):
And on the revenue front I think the simple explanation is more competitive capacity in our markets. It is 50 markets, some of those are across the Atlantic. Dallas and Washington National are the two largest, those are well known. But there has also been pretty significant growth from Frontier in Philadelphia and to some degree Chicago. So, I think we just have more markets that are now -- have LCC pricing in them and that really ramped up in -- started in the fourth quarter and ramps up even more in the first quarter.
Glenn Engel (Analyst - Bank of America):
And the Atlantic?
Scott Kirby (President):
It is the same issue. There is -- you've got more capacity. Some of the new markets are out of the UK -- Virgin and Delta reorient and fly more out of Heathrow.
so Doug and Scott are just lying.... DL has really no effect on AA's performance at LHR?