Pesky Discount Airlines Put the Heat on American and US Airways
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American and US Airways reacted fairly quickly to the competitive threat from the low cost carriers, but this battle will be ongoing in 2015.
Those pesky discount airlines, including Spirit, Southwest, JetBlue, Virgin America and Frontier, adversely impacted American Airlines Group's performance in the fourth quarter but American and US Airways struck back.
American Airlines Group reported that its passenger unit revenue, or passenger revenue per available seat mile, fell one percent globally to 13.50 cents in the fourth quarter.
Scott Kirby, American Airlines Group president, said during the company's fourth quarter and full-year 2014 earnings call today that there were "lots of changes" in the fourth quarter, includi
