Originally Posted by
fly18725
The bolded statement is unsupported and your own (biased) supposition.
While Delta's announcement gives it some good press and a potential tool to gain more corporate clients, I don't think anyone is in a position to say AA can complete a smooth integration and boost operational performance. Of course, gratuitous attacks on United are a popular past time.
By consistently blaming anything but UA's lack of focus on running a good operation Smisek has opened UA up to such gratuitous attacks.