US has been doing the pull down for years also.
Dont let the facts get in your way.
Great... AA has not been doing it to anywhere near the same degree... and thus, the focus is now on what AA is doing.
700 you need to remember what dl does is good for dl and what everyone else does (even if its the same or similar thing) its just not good bec that is the mentality of WT and his mind
back in 94 my dad was forced to take either the streets or go to DCA bec DL had told him they at the time were going to close ORF and so with 4 of us kids he chose DCA and commuted for the entire school yr... it sure seemed like a bad decision at the time for DL to get Pan Am routes
uh... DL is the largest US carrier (and usually during the summer largest carrier period) across the Atlantic, so, DL's decision to buy Pan Am gave DL the mass in Europe it needed.
More significantly, DL is profitable on a year around basis to both Europe and Asia, something, uh hmm, other carriers cannot say.
WT = contradiction, hypocrite and spin master! Now that everyone is on to his tactics he is in a downward spiral on all the topics . I knew this day would come and could not be happier ! Hope he learns a lesson 1. You can't always be right 2. No one likes a bragger!
It would make it a whole lot easier if some people would be willing to admit that other people are indeed right... I said all along that new AA would have to cut capacity despite its massive additions of capacity during BK. Sure enough, it is happening now
correct me if I am wrong but AA has cut a number of Asian routes to less than daily for the winter, they are suspending a number of European routes on a seasonal basis, and they are even beginning to slow their growth in Latin America.
Despite what a lot of people want to believe or deny, Parker is running AA to make money instead of to run its network like, uh, Pan Am, which flew where it wanted when it wanted regardless of whether it made money or not.
Things are a- changing at AA.
And for the better in terms of profitability.
Just wait til the realignment of CLT is in full force.
Josh
perhaps some missed it but I will note once again that US' entire int'l network - not just CLT - is taking a bigger hit in cuts compared to AA's.
