metopower
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- Nov 28, 2006
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Well I'm glad it's not AA because from my original AA friends they fear that it will become unraveled. Their opinion not mine..I can only talk about DL. The references were only about AA because of the discussion about replacing md80's with 738's verses newer twa md80's..eolesen said:My airline does have a decent balance sheet, thank you. But it isn't AA.I could care less about who is bigger, who has the best balance sheet, who is the largest, or who is the best run.None of that has any more bearing on this than trying to split off on a Squirrel! tangent about labor.It seems pretty obvious that AA came up with a business case for replacing the MD80's that met the CapEx spending thresholds from their finance department, and it looks like they were also able to convince banks to underwrite the financing for re-fleeting.I guess it's possible DL has higher thresholds for CapEx. Or, maybe they're comfortable enough that their network can support having subfleets fenced off into island-style operations.There are lots of different ways to run an airline. Just because DL does it one way doesn't make AA's way right or wrong.