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American Airlines Scandal
The capital structure of both of these airlines are complete opposites from one another. The way that they have built themselves up and go about running it financially show the flaws of the saying “too much of a good thing” can have on a company. Most notably that of American Airlines has dramatically changed since that of 2013 before going bankrupt..
Since 2013 American airlines has entered financial difficulties that have caused it to go bankrupt. With the merger it did with US airways it did have to do a whole line upgrade to attract clientele back, With doing that upgrade it has acquired quite a bit of debt. According to Morningstar, In 2013 before its bankruptcy American Airlines was primarily made up of about 9.7 Billion dollars of
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