As Eos Goes Under Risks Rise At AMR (AMR)(DAL)(UAUA)(CAL)(NWA)

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Eos was an extremely odd duck of an airline. It flew only one route, from New York’s JFK to London. It was an all business class affair, but, with a recession in full-swing flying is becoming a luxury, even for some businesses.

The bankruptcy of Eos over the weekend serves to remind the industry that rising fuel prices cannot be offset by increased ticket prices.

The managements at Delta (DAL) and Northwest (NWA) have decided that there is strength in numbers. They are merging and my be followed into the marriage chapel by Continental (CAL) and United (UAUA). There is scant evidence that merging two big carriers saves money while retaining customers  But, at least it is a desperate attempt at staying open for business.

AMR, (AMR), parent of American, may be destined to stay single. It has the most debt of any of the big carriers. No other company wants to take that on in a merger.

All of that makes AMR the most likely candidate to go into Chapter 11 next. With oil at $120, Wall St. can bet on it.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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