Lets get the facts straight, AA will do ANYTHING to run other airlines OUT of business, Braniff (twice) comes to kind. They have VERY deep pockets and any airline brave enough to match them....fare for fare..had better have deep pockets as well.
OTOH, AA has a problem...fixed costs are high (hello pilots) and they CAN be outfoxed...providing the time is right...and it may well be...now.