NewHampshire Black Bears
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- Aug 20, 2002
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With AA nearing a "crossroads"(of sorts), I think AMR should look at NWA !
(Let me be VERY CLEAR, I DO NOT suggest HDQ, do to AA AMT's, what NWA did to their AMT's) !!!!!
Both company's are VERY Independent ! Both carriers have specific niches, and I'm suggesting AA copy NW, in a lot of ways.
As far as competition, DFW is their MSP......MIA is their DTW, and (to a lesser extent) ORD is (somewhat like) MEM.
AA's JFK is like their SEA.
AA specialties are JFK/LAX-SFO.....JFK/LHR...and SA !
NW is ...NRT/ASIA(Which AA needs more of)
NW closed a LOT of domestic stations(to the IAM), and I suggest AA do the same, BUT unlike NW, turn the "closed" stations over to A/E !(Another reason AMR should NEVER sell A/E)
Forget Mesaba/Mesa/Pinnicle for a moment.............Nw, with COMPASS, is slowly(but surely) becoming like A/E, but THEY have Ejets.
Compass's $$ goes to NWA. A/E's $$$ goes to AMR.
NW has numerous 787's "right around the corner" AA has NONE,....Ahhhh but why ?
Maybe, just maybe, AA has NO intention's of buying any, opting to make the different models of the 777 the equivalent of NW's 787, as it pertains to AA's routes/needs.(It's been argued on this board before, that the 777 should/could replace the A-300's/767's), with the next generation 737 to follow.
While NW contracted out small station "work", let AA "contract out" small station work to A/E !!
Unlike carriers like DL, who are trying to land a Widebody on ANY paved strip east of JFK, UAL(who's management is trying to sadly annihilate them to a large extent), or LCC, who hasn't a CLUE, as to what time or DAY it is, IMHO, AA and NW have a lot of similarities that AA should look at closely !!
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(Let me be VERY CLEAR, I DO NOT suggest HDQ, do to AA AMT's, what NWA did to their AMT's) !!!!!
Both company's are VERY Independent ! Both carriers have specific niches, and I'm suggesting AA copy NW, in a lot of ways.
As far as competition, DFW is their MSP......MIA is their DTW, and (to a lesser extent) ORD is (somewhat like) MEM.
AA's JFK is like their SEA.
AA specialties are JFK/LAX-SFO.....JFK/LHR...and SA !
NW is ...NRT/ASIA(Which AA needs more of)
NW closed a LOT of domestic stations(to the IAM), and I suggest AA do the same, BUT unlike NW, turn the "closed" stations over to A/E !(Another reason AMR should NEVER sell A/E)
Forget Mesaba/Mesa/Pinnicle for a moment.............Nw, with COMPASS, is slowly(but surely) becoming like A/E, but THEY have Ejets.
Compass's $$ goes to NWA. A/E's $$$ goes to AMR.
NW has numerous 787's "right around the corner" AA has NONE,....Ahhhh but why ?
Maybe, just maybe, AA has NO intention's of buying any, opting to make the different models of the 777 the equivalent of NW's 787, as it pertains to AA's routes/needs.(It's been argued on this board before, that the 777 should/could replace the A-300's/767's), with the next generation 737 to follow.
While NW contracted out small station "work", let AA "contract out" small station work to A/E !!
Unlike carriers like DL, who are trying to land a Widebody on ANY paved strip east of JFK, UAL(who's management is trying to sadly annihilate them to a large extent), or LCC, who hasn't a CLUE, as to what time or DAY it is, IMHO, AA and NW have a lot of similarities that AA should look at closely !!
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