Doug Parker
Doug Parker
William Douglas "'Doug" Parker is an American businessman who is the current Chairman and CEO of American Airlines Group, Inc., the parent company of American Airlines...
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The issue here is we haven't been operating a reliable airline. We have been working as hard as we possibly could to figure out what the issues were and to get them addressed.
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The biggest news from our third quarter 2005 was the completion of the US Airways/America West merger, and obviously our third-quarter results do not yet include any of the expected positive effects from that merger.
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It's taken us some time to truly understand what is needed to do it.
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There's a lot of buzz in the industry about consolidation. There's a lot of value to be created by putting two airlines together.
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It's been one of the worst weeks for (Toronto) stocks since April.
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The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.
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Our consolidation was largely driven by crisis. US Airways needed it to survive. And as the industry improves, there will be fewer crises.
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The market's confidence in the new US Airways is extremely gratifying, and is evidenced by today's announcement and backed further by the recent sale of our former government-backed loans. While we have much work to do to successfully complete the integration of our two airlines, we are confident that we have taken the right steps to adequately fund a firm foundation for our new airline.
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The flip-side of that though is if you create value, you create value. And I think we're showing that you can create a lot of value -- much more than I think people thought -- by putting two airlines together.