Originally Posted by
Carolinian
If Dogie Parker gets his hands on AA, that is likely to change is a very negative way, as most thinks connected with Parker do.
While I am not a big fan of Parker, he has to get some credit for making lemonade out of lemons after being delt a pretty lousy hand (America West and US Air). LCC learned a painful lesson, has undone much of the extreme service reductions when customers rebelled, but their severe economic constraints leave little room to move.
I find it highly unlikely that the AMR board would allow any new leader to follow the very different, current path of DL, UA when the current strategy appears to be working: attracting long term, loyal, frequent business travelers.