Raymond Neidl Quotations

I was impressed. The loss was much smaller than we were expecting.

If they haven't been able to attract an investor for the last year, I don't see how they can now.

When everybody's positive, that's the time to get out, isn't it? ... But I'm positive, too. This industry is hot, hot, hot, and the economy's going to get hotter. And even if it doesn't, people will still like to gamble.

We need to see how quick traffic levels come back.

When you do code-sharing, it means one airline can book passengers on the other airline as if it were their own flight.

I'm only surprised that Northwest and Delta beat them into bankruptcy court.

It's got a simple model, simple pricing, and many consumers seem to like that.

They were so proud of it. It's the one thing they wanted to show you.

They came in about where expected, maybe a little better, and it's no surprise. That's not what counts. What counts is going forward. They verified what we thought, that the first quarter will have a significant loss. The rest of the year remains a little more hazy concerning what happens.

It's smart for an airline in light of the rally that we've had in the past couple months.

It's a tough summer for all airlines because of continuing bad weather across most of the country and the backup with the heavy traffic, with the traffic control system. But on top of that, they are having employee relation problems. There are two major contracts that are being negotiated and this is the way the employees are showing they're unhappy with the progress being made.

It is still a cyclical business, so management believes (it has) to keep some control over their costs. Other carriers have actually reduced some of their labor unit costs, and American has not been able to do that. That puts it at a cost disadvantage compared to some of its competitors.

The losses will be less than in '05.