FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - AA to scale back 2011 capacity increases by 1%

Mar 1, 2011 | 10:04 am

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Well, that fits with the slowed MD-80 retirement (not 1:1 with 737 deliveries) and the increase in jet fuel prices. Keeping the MD-80s around made some sense when fuel prices fell... now it makes marginal routes less attractive.