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 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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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.
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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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It's been one of the worst weeks for (Toronto) stocks since April.
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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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Looking forward, we continue to believe that excluding one-timer merger-related transaction costs, the new US Airways will be profitable in 2006 - even at today's projected fuel prices.
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We're underdogs, but that means we can play free with nothing to lose. We want to leave it all on the court. This is something we're going to remember the rest of our lives.
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I'd like to ask you to slow down. Are we in some kind of hurry to get things done?