report question about AMR-US Airways

Case: AMR – US Airways Merger
• _AMR Corporation 2010 Annual Report
• _AMR Corporation 2013 10K Report
• _US Airways 2013 10K Report
• _Final AMR-US Merger Investor Presentation

Based one these report to answer the following questions.

1. How much do US Airways profits fluctuate due to fuel volatility?
2. Why is fuel volatility bad for profits? Do a cost analysis alone, and then do a full profit maximizing analysis.
3. What is Express Operations’s operating cost per ASM? What is its operating cost per RSM? What is the difference between these two numbers?
4. Calculate the same numbers for US Airways. Why does Express do such worse?
5. Why will the merger benefit the firms?
6. Why do you think the FTC allowed the UA-CO merger but is blocking the AA-US merger?