Originally Posted by LAXJFKesq

Reaching for straws with this response. Talk about cherrypicking. That pending BA antitrust was denied by the incoming Bush Administration. But if I am not mistaken, doesn't UA have slots at LHR too?

AA still is the dominant player in Latin America and Caribbean albeit the latter has been reduced with the closing of the SJU hub.

AA had labor strife in the early 2000s too. The carrier almost went into bk in 2003 as I recall.

Again, how you reach the conclusion that AA "perhaps" was the best positioned airline entering the last decade is just your opinion based on no substantive facts.