UA pays its people more. AA has a network advantages as the largest airline in the world with a bunch more RJs. UA has had years of bad management and hence the employees have a nearly irreversable hate for management. On the revenue side, UA will see significant improvement resulting from the US codeshare. Jim On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Jon Wright wrote: > Why is UA in such perilous financial straits but AA isn't? > > I always thought those two carriers were the Coke and Pepsi of > the airline industry. > > Cheers, > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Wright jwright@halcyon.com voice 425-635-0338 > fax 425-844-1403 > You've got a hard lip, Herbert. http://www.spudboy.com/~jwright >