An Investment Business Memo for American Airlines The buzz in the airline industry in February 2013 was all about the potential merger between American Airlines and US Airways since that would make the merged company the number one airline in the industry globally. Despite the some cynical comments veteran investors hold for investing in the airline industry‚ which will be mentioned below‚ as well as the unforeseen lawsuit being thrown at their way‚ it is an investment that is strongly suggests
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American Airlines vs. United Airlines – A Comparison Share Readers of this site know that I have selected American Airlines as my airline of choice. I live near Austin‚ Texas: only Southwest offers more service from Austin than American‚ but Southwest does not offer international service or service to Hawaii‚ so that eliminated them from my consideration. I try to do all of my traveling on American Airlines or one of its Oneworld partners. I recently had to attend a conference in San Francisco:
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Summary of the Company American Airlines‚ Inc. (American) was founded in 1934 and is the principal subsidiary of AMR Corporation. American provides aircraft services to around 160 destinations around the world. American Airlines has connections to 3 regional carriers. Two carriers are owned by AMR (American Eagle and Executive Airlines). The third carrier is owned by a third party (Republic Airways Holdings) that has no connection to AMR. These regional carriers serve to connect feed from
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The parent company of American Airlines (AA) says it will cut around 15% of its workforce. American Airline which filed for bankruptcy protection‚ also wants to make changes to its staff pensions. The airline lost about $884m and more in the first nine months of 2011. AMR’s chief executive‚ Thomas W Horton said in a letter to his employees "We are going to use the restructuring process to make the necessary changes to meet our challenges head-on and capitalise fully on the solid foundation we’ve
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The U.S. Airline Industry in 1995 2. a) American Airlines’ 1992 air fare strategies resembled its early to mid-80s SuperSavers program. It offered discounts of up to 45% on round-trip flights of at least 7 days‚ purchased 30 days in advance. Previously‚ air fare pricing was a simple structure of first class/coach and peak/off-peak categories. Robert Crandall‚ of American Airlines‚ introduced a new air fare system known as yield management. The simple price structure was unbundled to unleash multiple
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satisfy the needs and wants of that group. American Airlines’ (American’s) long term targeting of the lesbian‚ gay‚ bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) segment of the travel market is an example of successful execution of market segmentation. In 18 years‚ American has positioned itself as ‘the most popular airline of LGBT-choice’ (Purkayastha‚ 2009)‚ and now generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue from the segment. American was the first airline to actively target the untapped LGBT market
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HISTORY OF AMERICAN AIRLINES American Airlines‚ Inc. (AA) is a major airline of the United States. It is the world’s largest airline in regards to accumulated passenger miles. American Airlines took off on April 15‚ 1926 when Charles Lindbergh flew a bag of mail from Chicago to St. Luis in a DH-4 biplane. A year later the first passenger flight flew from Boston to New York‚ heralding the real first passenger airplane travel by American Airlines. A subsidiary of AMR Corporation‚ the head quarters
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Industry background/history The airline industry experienced growing revenues throughout the 1990s. At the turn of the new millennium‚ there was a drastic change to this trend. A major devastation to the airline industry came after the terrorist attacks on September 11‚ 2001. The industry recorded losses of $7.7 billion for the year and revenues went down 13.5% after a record $93.6 billion in 2000. The industry struggled throughout the following years. Recovery from losses was difficult in those
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demand forecasting‚ pricing optimization‚ and system implementation and distribution. Though individual airlines in the States are not owned by the government‚ it effectively controlled their performance until the late 1970s by setting a single price for each route and decreeing which of many carriers could operate where‚ but from the late 1970s on‚ the government relaxed the rules. American Airlines (AA) was the first to use basic revenue management techniques‚ offering dynamic pricing in shape of discounted
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Currently the airline industry as a whole seems to be on the road of recovery. We‚ American Airlines‚ the fourth largest carrier recently avoided bankruptcy‚ but had a summer full of pressure due to ongoing union struggles and questionable executive compensation packages. After having incurred such big losses‚ this recovery has come about because of the government bailout and many of our large competitors’ abilities to survive the turbulence in the industry. So far‚ the prospects look promising
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