AA buys Frontier?

[Pilotbob3]

from another message board:

Yep, that's what my sources say. Any BOD members want to comment? Oh, sorry....I heard that they had to sign confidentiality agreements.

Heard it's basically a done deal. Anyboby check the SEC filings on the internet lately? Isn't that how we discovered the Reno purchase?

 

[Jetsi]

?

I haven't heard anything like that from our side of the fence. Many rumors going around, but that is a new one.

Care to put a link to the message board so others could see (or if it needs a password, could you cut and paste some relevant stuff)?

Jetsi

 

[Pilotbob3]

thats all i know...it was the whole post.....tomorrow is supposed to be a 'big announcement' day at AA

 

[F9 Driver]

I heard it too! I can't wait either...

Oh wait - I heard it as Frontier to buy AA... Oh well I thought I'd be able to fly a 777 after all

Get real pilotboob. The big announcement will probably be the removal of an olive from the last remaining salad in 1st class

Best of luck to all!

 

[Double Shot]

with what money....

 

[Bill Nelson]

I guess that would mean that all of the TWA guys would be back since all the frontier fellas would go to the back and subsequently be furloughed.

Better watch what you wish for.

BTW, isn't Frontiers market cap about the same as AA's? I would think Frontier might want to buy AA and sell off all of the undesirable pieces and build a "new" Frontier.

 

[jetexas]

The big announcement will probably be the removal of an olive from the last remaining salad in 1st class

How that's funny!

 

[BLUE BAYOU]

I believe the announcement may be what I saw on NBC Nightly News tonight... AA announced that they, too, will be implementing new fare structure/rules like Delta did earlier...

 

[Heavy Set]

I heard that AA will announce that its pilots will be paid UAL rates + $1.

C'mon, this rumor doesn't make much sense given that AA has no money, its stock is in the crapper, and there is no fleet commonality... What would AA do with Frontier - create a low-cost subsidiary to combat TED?

 

[Eagle-ista]

I don't really think so...

Heavy Set has it right.

With Reno, there were the routes in California and Super-80s. TWA was at the right price, with compatible aircraft, with the unfortunate exception of the B717, even AirCal made sense.

Frontier has no common types and isn't a threat to the AA operation. I don't see it happening.

Add this one to the "I saw Glenn Zander buying Richard Branson dinner in a dark, romantic corner of a restaurant in Maui" thread...

 

[Pilotbob3]

I heard it too! I can't wait either...

Oh wait - I heard it as Frontier to buy AA... Oh well I thought I'd be able to fly a 777 after all

Get real pilotboob. The big announcement will probably be the removal of an olive from the last remaining salad in 1st class

Best of luck to all!

geez, already calling me names....don't kill the messenger.

 

[Whale Rider]

While were on the subject of AA...Anyone hear a rumor about AA selling American Eagle??????? No Joke!

 

[English]

Can somebody please buy Aloha?

Maybe then I'd have a future in the airlines.

 

[F9 Driver]

Sorry Pilotbob3,

I shouldn't have gone there. It is just that it one of the dumbest rumors I've heard in a long time.

I guess in this freakish industry I shouldn't dismiss anything so quickly.

Sorry!

 

[TWA Dude]

TWA was at the right price, with compatible aircraft, with the unfortunate exception of the B717, even AirCal made sense.

Now whydya have to go and hurt my feelings? The only "unfortunate" thing about the 717 was that AA didn't follow through on their original plan to order 100 more! Dumping the F100 was necessary but keeping the 717 would've given AA the 100-seater that's the talk of the town these days. Harumph!

 

[Swede]

I think the announcement really was that anti-climactic pricing schedule. Wheeeee!

Now that AA salaries are below SWA, at least labor can no longer be blamed for the lack of profits.

 

[TWA Dude]

Now that AA salaries are below SWA, at least labor can no longer be blamed for the lack of profits.

Sure they can; just look at USAir.

 

[Hoot R. Hunter]

I think the announcement really was that anti-climactic pricing schedule. Wheeeee!

Welcome to the CRAAPA wimp-line for Friday, January 7. Our members can now come out from under their cribs and freshen up their Pampers. The week has come and gone without the rumored "big announcement". I was pretty certain this was going to be the case as I'm sure the boss would have mentoned something to me after I finished detailing his car the other day at Centrefort. Don't you even worry a little about these silly little fare reductions. As teAAm plAAyers we stand ready and willing to more than offset these revenue losses with givebAAcks of our own. And what the heck, we'll just raise the monthly max a little here, fly a little OT there, throw a few more junior pukes on the junk heap, and it'll all be a wash on the W-2s. Of far more lasting importance is the fact that our agenda to leave no concesssionary stone unturned is gaining unprecendented momentum. I am happy to announce that our BOS and ORD bases have now joined DCA in obtaining the official designation of management domiciles. Well done. That's all for today, thanks for calling.

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

Tiny bubbles.....

Can somebody please buy Aloha?

Maybe then I'd have a future in the airlines.

.....at least you got that (those) going for you. So pass the poi please and don't worry, be happy.

 

[Hoot R. Hunter]

Maybe the AAnnouncement was that they are already short of S80 FOs in NY......2 days after a furlough.

Who'da thunk it?

Brilliant!