United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL)

[bowonwing]

Comparing the top US Legacy Carriers cash/debt (from Absolute_power on UAUA Yahoo mb. I just bumped it to the top. I do not know the source of his/her information, but the AMR numbers are the same on Yahoo).

"AMR = $4.5 Blllion Cash VS $11 Billion Debt & $23 Bill Revenue
AMR has 145% more Debt than cash
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CAL = $2.5 Billion Cash VS $5 Billion Debt & $15 Bill
Revenue
CAL has 100% more Debt than cash
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DAL = $2.6 Billion Cash VS $9 Billion Debt & $20 Bill
Revenue
DAL has 250% More Debt than Cash
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LCC = $2 Billion Cash VS $3.2 Billion Debt & $12 Bill
Revenue
LCC has 52% More Debt than Cash
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NWA = $3.2 Billion Cash VS $7.2 Billion Debt & $13 Bill
Revenue
NWA has 125% More Debt than Cash
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UAUA = $3 Billion Cash VS $9 Billion Debt & $20 Bill
Revenue
UAUA has 200% More Debt than Cash
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If Cash is king and Debt is Cancer then the order of strongest to weakest purely using balance sheets would be in this order.
Strongest to weakest:

LCC
CAL
NWA
AMR
UAUA
DAL "

Do your own DD, GLTA