Replies to post #24842 on American Airlines Group Inc (AAL)

[Ralph Canine]

Is this up .80 cents AH to $48.81 or am I seeing things? I mean the market just closed. What caused it to go up 1.66% in 3 minutes?

[slacker01]

Airlines are certainly a risky investment. It doesn't take much to sway them one way of the other. Well actually the other. LOL Down. Weather, wars, oil, disease, season, even the market itself, etc. It is a very volatile stock for the most part. On top of that, and a few here will disagree, but here goes one more time. Our cost per passenger is the highest in the industry, our load factor it one of the lowest in the industry by a couple percentage points, our workforce is the most expensive, our PRASM is going down each month,even though we have no hedging we are only like 10 cents different on cost of fuel versus the other airlines, our projected margins are only 1-2 percent higher than last year yet fuel is half the cost. Need I go on? This company is not operating on all cylinders so to speak. Customers are leaving and cost of operations keeps going up. AND THAT IS THE GOOD NEWS. LMBO