Originally Posted by
deeruck
I don't think they've chosen to make it hard to do. They've just had a chronic underinvestment in their IT infrastructure. Upgrades, either using instruments or money, is a place where UA really outperforms AA.
It may seem that way know but immediately after the UA/CO merger (or maybe better describes as the CO hostile takeover of UA), the state of the combined IT was truly terrible for some time. IMO the combined AA/US IT has been much smoother.
Not saying that the current AA IT could not be improved. It obviously could be.