American Airlines Group Inc (AAL)

[rockland2u]

as far as new employees, we are buying new planes faster than we are retiring them, (and someone has to pilot them) plus the mandatory retirement age of the senior highest paid pilots, which is significant, is going to leave us uber short pilots, for the whole industry. so they are hiring/training them as fast as possible. which will pay for itself with lower wages. plus they reduced staffing to bare bones during economic downturn, and they need the people back (also new and cheaper wages) to bring in the money with a better economy, new routes, and more customers. even the wage improvements merely offset the pay cuts from more than a decade ago. so shareholders are sitting pretty. the model was set up on 90-100 $ a barrel oil, our savings were put into more fuel efficient planes, the reduction in the price of oil is icing on the cake. for whatever reason, fuel savings is not figured into this yet. neither has synergies of both airlines. it will happen. patience, long and strong.