Originally Posted by
mh3265a
I think United is waiting to see what AA does post-Bankruptcy. Do they merge or go it alone. I think they may institute changes to grab elites from AA if they decide to merge.
AA CEO announced he plans on going it alone - and I think they can pull it off, but will need to continue with the aggressive harvesting of high-value customers...of course once their glass is full, we all know what happens to those goodies
This is a relief as it will keep our Appalachian Bumpkin cousin (USAir) in *A as a domestic backup for accrual and redemption.
I can't tell either way if the exec shakeup is a case of "you angered our high value customers and they left" or possibly "you didn't squeeze enough revenue out of *all* our customers and keep pandering to those annoying Elite SOBs".
Only time will tell....but an independent AA will at least provide an emergency escape hatch if my second thought turns out accurate.