Tag: airlines

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Taking off at Northwest and Continental..
May 19, 2008—It's no secret that most of the major airlines are a bit of a mess, what with the poor economy, rising fuel prices, lots of layoffs and declining customer service, as I footnoted here. And the stocks of various airlines, as reflected by

On AMR: We hate to say we told you so…
April 9, 2008—Nearly seven weeks ago, we footnoted about what seemed like an interesting disclosure at AMR (AMR), the parent company for American Airlines, which disclosed a sizable increase in the number of airworthiness directives it had received in its 2007 10-K. At the time, the ...

AMR: Is there really something special in the air?
February 21, 2008—Yesterday, I booked some tickets on American Airlines because I need to be in Dallas and Kansas City next month for speaking gigs. And it's a good thing for parent-company AMR (AMR) that the tickets are non-refundable because the 10-K they filed yesterday raised some interesting concerns, like ...