AMR considers 5 airlines for merger

[MUTATIS MUTANDIS]

Boy, looks like I hit a nerve. Let me guess, old Ted is a friend of yours. With your level of maturity and intelligence can't say it really surprises me.

Bean

Like you and BERNIE M!

 

[700UW]

Like typical brainwashed union lackeys almost all you do is throw out personal insults, what is is like to be a non thinking fool?

And you are doing the same thing as a non-union worker who hates unions.

 

[Beancounter]

Like you and BERNIE M!

Shhhhhhhhhh, that's my retirement plan, since we don't really have one (we'll be paying for American's retirement, not ours). I figure if it goes awry at least the cell will probably be better than our overnight hotels.

Bean

 

[signals]

If Parker is such a financial genius, how much did US make when they had the $2 cokes?

 

[EastUS1]

Like typical brainwashed union lackeys almost all you do is throw out personal insults, what is is like to be a non thinking fool?

Don't be coy here 😉 Intimate and direct personal knowledge of: "what is is like to be a non thinking fool?" is fully demonstrated within your ability to offer blanket statements such as "typical brainwashed union lackeys" 😉

 

[WorldTraveler]

MM,

I'm not saying that I disagree with the opinion that US has too much debt. That being said though, the numbers shown in that article are highly suspect (as in, not accurate), money is cheap right now, and the person writing that article doesn't even seem to grasp how the accounting equation works. Motley Fool? You know how when as a professional pilot you read an article by a so called aviation expert and you wonder if that person has flown anything bigger than a 152? Well.....how do I put this politely? That's how people, with a clue in the investing and financial industry view the Motley Fool and The Street. My advice, get a subscription to the Wall Street Journal.

Bean

The problem w/ investment analyses of airlines by general publications like Motley Fool is that airlines ALWAYS will look bad using metrics which are designed for general business. And yes, the WSJ excels because they don't try to give advice and analysis on every move of every company like other publications do - and often do so poorly.

While the article cited does compare US to its network carrier peers, not even those comparisons are very meaningful.

Within the airline industry, US is working to distinguish itself from other carriers and has moved closer to mid-pack instead of back of the pack based on financial metrics.
But the airline industry is still highly subject to outside factors including executions of strategies by other carriers - which is why the outcome of the next round of consolidation is so critical to US' future.

No set of investor statistics can forecast the future of the industry based on potential mergers, esp. since other carriers compared to US are being much less public w/ what their strategies might be.

 

[firedougparker]

jetblue probably makes the most sense, followed by Alaska. They'll never get Virgin to agree to a merger. The model is too different. We are wrong for a lot of reasons, but I won't get started on that bandwagon on this thread.

 

[johnny kat]

firedougparker....Signals what is your beef with US? You have never told us. I think it is hilarious that you post under all these different aliases...what gives dude?