At a recent AA company meeting 380 and sonic cruiser came up.
CEO's position, 380 is a white elephant and American Airlines wants no part of it.
Sonic Cruiser? Even post 9/11 AA is still willing to committ to the entire first 3 years of production, as long as it is exclusive, otherwise 200 jets if everyone else gets em.
Fuel is way cheaper than manpower. AA feels the need for speed.
About 1/2 the gates at the AA terminal at JFK could take the Sonic cruiser now (Big range of movement, just retract the thing fully instead of casually parking em like they do now. some of them you could just about back a 777 into and still get a gate to the front of the plane)
Cheers
Wino (Already got my bid in <G> <img src="wink.gif" border="0">
[ 19 January 2002: Message edited by: Wino ]</p>