American Air Boss Speaks Softly, Carries Stick

[lonestar]

Originally Posted by Jetmeck

Great news for a non union whore such as yourself. Get busy spanking off.

Obviously some anger issues. Unable to carry on a conversation intelligently without calling names.

Ps I'm happily married. Only folks like yourself need to jerk off.

[lonestar]

American Extends Flight Schedule Cuts
October 11, 2012
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American Airlines said it will cut back on passenger capacity until mid-November, extending reductions from September and October as it cancelled hundreds of flights, citing aircraft maintenance issues and pilots reporting sick.

The carrier, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, said in a memo to its managers that it was cutting its flight schedule until mid-November by 1 percent to give it more flexibility to organize crews and planes to return to a more normal pattern.

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1349994591.html

[lonestar]

AMR Seeks Extension Of Bankruptcy Plan Period
October 16, 2012
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American Airlines parent AMR on Tuesday asked a bankruptcy judge for a 30-day extension, to January 28, of its exclusive period to file a plan to exit bankruptcy.

In court papers filed jointly with its creditors' committee, AMR asked to extend the period during which creditors cannot pursue their own restructuring plans for the airline.

AMR declared bankruptcy last November amid high staff costs. It has said it wants to exit bankruptcy as a standalone firm. But smaller competitor US Airways is pushing hard to acquire AMR while it is still under Chapter 11 protection.

During so-called exclusivity periods, bankrupt companies retain control over proposing a plan to exit bankruptcy, and creditors are not allowed to pursue competing plans. In AMR's case, that means any acquisition plan involving US Airways or any other firm would require AMR's consent.

US Airways and several other firms recently signed non-disclosure agreements to explore various strategies for AMR to exit bankruptcy, including both merger and standalone options.

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1350432398.html

rut ro..

[barryr]

Originally Posted by lonestar

Obviously some anger issues. Unable to carry on a conversation intelligently without calling names.

Ps I'm happily married. Only folks like yourself need to jerk off.

He's mad because he got hurt, probably while playing video games, and Obama didn't end up paying his medical bills like he promised

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by lonestar

Unable to carry on a conversation intelligently without calling names.

Pot, meet kettle.

Of course, you can't carry on an intelligent conversation either with or without name-calling.

[barryr]

Originally Posted by L.A. BRONCOS FAN

Pot, meet kettle.

Of course, you can't carry on an intelligent conversation either with or without name-calling.

Says cartoon boy, the happy liberal

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by barryr

Says cartoon boy, the happy liberal

If your best rebuttal to any given argument is "yew post cartoons!" then you have big problems (not that this is news to anyone.)

[lonestar]

Cartoon boi going at it again.

I guess when words fail you. You resort to YouTube

[lonestar]

AMR Reports USD$238 Million Q3 Loss
October 17, 2012


American Airlines parent AMR on Wednesday reported a third-quarter net loss of USD$238 million on worker severance and Chapter 11 costs.

The latest results were up from the from the USD$162 million reported a year ago and included USD$348 million in severance and reorganisation costs.

Revenue rose 0.8 percent to USD$6.43 billion. Operating expenses were up 0.6 percent, but fuel costs fell 3.3 percent.

Unit revenue, a key measure of pricing power, rose 4.3 percent from a year earlier at American and regional affiliates.
The company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last November and is evaluating a potential merger with rival US Airways, cited progress in reducing costs.

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1350507131.html

[lonestar]

FWIW

Delta Posts Higher Quarterly Net Profit
October 24, 2012


Delta Air Lines announced a higher quarterly profit on Wednesday and indicated revenue trends looked to be improving following a soft September.

Delta had net income of USD$1.05 billion for the third quarter, compared with USD$549 million a year earlier.

Results included special items, such as a USD$440 million gain tied to fuel hedges that together added up to a USD$279 million gain.

Revenue rose 1 percent to USD$9.92 billion.

Delta said unit revenue would likely rise 4 percent to 5 percent in October after a 3 percent increase in the third quarter, driven by strength in business travel. The carrier added that it expects "robust" leisure traffic for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

unlike AA losing $238,000,000.00

more at..http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1351119798.html

[houghtam]

Hey remember that one time lonestar said he was leaving and then didn't?

GTFO

[lonestar]

Originally Posted by houghtam

Hey remember that one time lonestar said he was leaving and then didn't?

GTFO

still a classy guy I see.

I started this thread and it is not political in nature.. so I will post in it from time to time..

Have you seen any posts in the other threads? I think not.. IN fact it took me a while to even find this thread.. All the while looking past all the the other threads started and have been posted..

[Jetmeck]

Originally Posted by lonestar

still a classy guy I see.

I started this thread and it is not political in nature.. so I will post in it from time to time..

Have you seen any posts in the other threads? I think not.. IN fact it took me a while to even find this thread.. All the while looking past all the the other threads started and have been posted..

What part of no way in hell AA is losing that kind of money and if they were it would be MANAGEMENTS FAULT as the employees have given back 18.5 % in wages and benefits in 03 .

If they are that bad at management then they should be fired. I gurantee you any company would love for their employees to give hundreds of millions a year to help save the company like that.

Management was and still is getting bonuses while we took pay cuts. Your gotta be some POS AA management clown to have the hard on for workers like you do.

Get it out get it off you low life empolyee/union hating scumbag. Your full of chit. That plain enuff for ya ?

Your don't know your ass from a hole in the ground on AA.

[Jetmeck]

I am evaluting taking a dump but it doesn't mean I will.........**** off lonestar.

[lonestar]

Originally Posted by Jetmeck

What part of no way in hell AA is losing that kind of money and if they were it would be MANAGEMENTS FAULT as the employees have given back 18.5 % in wages and benefits in 03 .

If they are that bad at management then they should be fired. I gurantee you any company would love for their employees to give hundreds of millions a year to help save the company like that.

Management was and still is getting bonuses while we took pay cuts. Your gotta be some POS AA management clown to have the hard on for workers like you do.

Get it out get it off you low life empolyee/union hating scumbag. Your full of chit. That plain enuff for ya ?

Your don't know your ass from a hole in the ground on AA.

Still see your having anger issues.

Let me be blunt since labor costs are the biggest expense at an airline out side fuel. If they are still losing money after you giving them back 18%. That just means they needed more than 18%.

Which sounds like what the judge will be doing when this is all said and done.

Along with other canceling of contracts and restucturing then the judge will turn the company back to management to run. But most likely you will be either US air or part of another airline and not AA, when it is all done. Another management team will be making the tough calls.

While I do not know your job I have been around airlines and airports for the better part of 40 years. I have seen other airlines go through bankruptcy and come out better for it.

But will tell you if USA takes you over it will be years before your running smoothly. And laugh this one off I'll be a shareholder. Ahahahahahahahaha

[lonestar]

Originally Posted by Jetmeck

I am evaluting taking a dump but it doesn't mean I will.........**** off lonestar.

Sounds like you are unable to make decisions, except being juvenile in expressing how you feel.

Some day the anger will go away and you will grow up.

But then someone of limited social skills who knows for sure.

[lonestar]

United Continental Scrapes Q3 Profit
October 25, 2012

United Continental, the world's biggest airline, posted a small quarterly profit as revenue fell and expenses rose.

Net income came to USD$6 million in the third quarter, down from USD$653 million a year earlier.



Revenue fell 2.6 percent to USD$9.91 billion. Unit revenue fell 1.3 percent.

Operating costs rose 5 percent, with fuel expenses up 1 percent.

The company, formed when United bought Continental Airlines in 2010, said it was out to win back customers who turned to competitors after technology changes hurt service and revenue performance over the summer.

United "clearly had a bad quarter operationally," said Avondale Partners airline analyst Fred Lowrance.

United Continental was the last of the major US carriers to report third-quarter results. Delta and US Airways posted higher earnings earlier this week and said revenue trends looked to be improving after a soft September.


Delta forecast a rise of 4 percent to 5 percent in October unit revenue. Southwest Airlines said last week its unit revenue was trending about 4 percent stronger for October compared with a year earlier.


United still has work to do to complete its merger.

Ray Neidl, an aerospace analyst with Maxim Group, cited the need for joint labour contracts among the unions that represented workers at the former Continental and United. The airline said on Thursday it expects to finalise contract language soon with its pilots.

"The longer this drags out, the longer it may take to realise the full benefits of the merger," Neidl said in a note to clients.

(Reuters)

Even the other two biggies made money unlike AA...

[ghwk]

Originally Posted by lonestar

Even the other two biggies made money unlike AA...

Hey what happened to your avi? How come txtebow has it now? You Texans sharing everything nowadays?

[Spider]

Lonestar ....

[houghtam]

Lonestar doesn't realize that "labor costs" includes management salaries as well.

[lonestar]

Originally Posted by houghtam

Lonestar doesn't realize that "labor costs" includes management salaries as well.

oh HOW wrong you are..

Having been in management for most of my career I know exactly how cost are accounted for..

In most companies LABOR expenses are the highest or second highest expenses on the P&L (that is Profit and Loss statement for you morons)..

Most airlines expenses are (now) fuel, equipment and labor with the later two duking it out for the #2 expense depending on the age of the airline....

Frankly I expected a tad more adult post from you as generally you have a clue.. But I guess you are playing to the rest of the liberal morons out there, by getting Juvenile and petty..

[lonestar]

Originally Posted by ghwk

Hey what happened to your avi? How come txtebow has it now? You Texans sharing everything nowadays?

Never had an avy as I find them juvenile, and a waste of band width.. I have them turned off because this site is slow at best loading..

SO anyone that has one I do not see. it..

Been think about turning off the ability to see pictures but then OU's pictures would not be seen.. ahahahahahahaha

[lonestar]

AMR CEO Updates Creditors on US Air Talks
November 15, 2012


The chief executive of bankrupt AMR, parent of American Airlines, told creditors that a merger with US Airways would need to result in creditors receiving a large share of equity in a combined airline for a deal to proceed, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Chief executive Tom Horton made the comments as part of an update on merger discussions during a gathering of the airline's official creditors committee, which holds sway over how AMR will exit bankruptcy, the Journal reported, citing people close to the discussions.

AMR declared bankruptcy last November. The company has said it must save more than USD$1 billion in staff costs to become profitable.

Horton expects American Airlines' creditors to receive more than 70 percent of the shares of a combined airline, the paper reported.

http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1352979492.html

rut ro long time AA folks about to be screwed again..

[chadta]

Originally Posted by lonestar

Having been in management for most of my career

That explains alot.

I always get a kick out of bad managers who blame everything on the guys who just show up to work and do what they are told.

Auto industry, it was the fault of the guy putting the right wheel on Cadilac Escalades fault that the company was losing money, it had nothing to do with a management decision to make big tanks that nobody wanted and not make little cars. Yup blame the guy putting the wheels on.

You can blame the crappy workers all you want, in some cases it may even be true, who hired them ? They didnt just so up and start work, a good manager can see and pick a good worker.

If you have a clue in the 90 day probation period you can see if the person is going to work out,(if you dont have a 90 day probation period where either party can terminate employment without reason I apologize) if you choose to keep them, you are responsible for whatever they may turn into, you failed, you should have seen it, thats on the manager, not the monkey pushing the broom.

[Jetmeck]

Lonestar finally admitted his true colors, the douche is likely AA management.

While we took 18% pay and benefit cut on 03 upper management was getting

BONUSES.................this ass clown will blame it all on labor though.


Romney and this clown come from the same mold.