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Old Mar 23, 2011 | 6:06 pm
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Airline analyst calls cornerstone strategy, capacity plans "difficult to justify"

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/a...ack-about.html

As of March 1, AMR has trimmed a percentage point off its 2011 capacity plans. But that doesn't satisfy its critics.

It didn't help that Delta Air Lines announced significant cuts in capacity Tuesday at the JP Morgan conference, and American's parent, AMR, did not.

Really? I guess they haven't been paying attention to cut after cut from 2009 on. How many more cuts can there be?

The cornerstone strategy, revealed last April, has American Airlines and American Eagle redeploying their flights to those three markets plus Dallas/Fort Worth and Miami. It intends for 98 percent of its capacity to start or end in one of those five markets.

In a March 18 report, airline analyst Hunter Keay, who recently moved to Wolfe Trahan & Co. from Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., called American's growth plans "difficult to justify."
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