I'd love to see AS bought out and folded into one of the existing big 3. Always been a weird odd-duck of an airline and in spite of being 75k I have grown to want to fly them less and less. Always reading how great(!!!) they are but never had that feeling myself. Lot of AS fanboys so I know I'll be hammered for saying this.

AA is making some smart decisions to position themselves for the inevitable downturn by this and the LATAM moves.