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@all
die unter Gläubigerschutz stehende Fluggesellschaft United Airlines (UALAQ), deutsche WKN: 891685 ist am Freitag in den USA unter hohen Umsätzen um ca. 18 % gestiegen.
Hier könnte sich eine Rettung anbahnen. Die Aktie ist von ihrem Höchststand bei ca. 100 USD auf 0,40 USD gefallen.
Wenn der Restrukturierungsplan greift könnte sich ein Invest lohnen.
Was meint Ihr dazu???

Hier noch die letzte Meldung:

United Executive Confident Airline Has `Turned Corner` Financially


Aug 21, 2003 (The Denver Post - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via COMTEX)
-- A top United Airlines executive said Wednesday that the bankrupt company has
"turned the corner" in its battle to boost revenues and staunch crippling
losses.

"The revenue turnaround has begun," said John Tague, United`s executive vice
president for customers. "We`re seeing the company`s financial situation gain a
great deal of stability."

Tague, in town this week for a United sales meeting, also said the airline`s
cash flow has "improved dramatically" in recent months.

United must increase the cash it generates from operations each month to satisfy
covenants in the loans that are keeping it in business during bankruptcy.

"We have no near-term concerns about the covenants at all," Tague said.

Still, he said, the positive trends "are not strong enough to give us
indications of profit."

The carrier lost a staggering $623 million in the second quarter, in part
because of an 18 percent drop in revenue and despite receiving $300 million in
government aid. Analysts predict a loss of more than $300 million in the third
quarter, which ends Sept. 30.

United is the dominant airline at Denver International Airport, its
second-busiest hub. The airline and its commuter affiliates fly about 60 percent
of DIA`s passengers. United employs about 6,000 in the Denver area.

Tague`s comments during an interview with The Denver Post were among the most
positive to come from United`s executive ranks since the company filed for
bankruptcy in December.

United chief executive Glenn Tilton told The Post in May that while the company
had made significant progress on cost cuts, slumping revenues remained an
obstacle to its reorganizing efforts.

"For revenues to improve, the economy is going to have to show signs of
significant improvement and the business traveler is going to have to come
back," Tilton said.

On Tuesday, an industry group reported positive July revenue-growth numbers for
the entire industry. U.S. airlines lost nearly $11 billion in 2002 and have
struggled this year through the SARS epidemic in Asia, the Iraqi war and
prolonged sluggishness in the economy.

The upward trend may be short-lived. Last week`s East Coast blackout is likely
to affect August`s industry revenue numbers, and fall is the slowest time of the
year for airlines. Yet analysts said the latest developments were positive.

"We continue to see bright skies ahead" for the airlines, analyst Susan Donofrio
of Deutsche Bank Securities in New York said in an investment report Wednesday.

"Things are starting to look better around the industry," said airline
consultant Jon Ash, managing director of Global Aviation Associates in
Washington. "But I`m not sure anyone is out of the woods yet. There is light at
the end of the tunnel."

United in particular still has major issues to address, Ash said. The company,
which hopes to exit bankruptcy early next year, must line up billions of dollars
in exit financing, potentially rebid for a government-guaranteed loan, address a
massive pension shortfall and develop a detailed business plan.

The airline continues to renegotiate lease terms at the airports it serves,
including DIA. In Denver, the talks became contentious this summer because the
city wants United to give some gates to Frontier Airlines, the airport`s No. 2
carrier.

United and city officials have met several times over the past two weeks with no
developments reported.

Tague said Wednesday that United`s unit revenue -- what the carrier earns flying
each seat 1 mile -- will grow 5 percent to 10 percent above 2002 for the
remainder of this year.

Unit revenue is a key industry measure, but it is not the same as the standard
revenue logged by companies on their income statements. Reductions in capacity
can push unit revenue up, and all carriers have slashed capacity over the past
18 months.

United`s unit revenue has been down nearly every quarter since late 2000, but it
began rising in June. Tague predicted that the carrier`s July unit-revenue
growth will be among the best in the industry.

In April, United posted the largest unit-revenue decline, 13 percent, among its
competitors.

"We`ve gone from last to near the top in 120 days," he said.

The Air Transport Association, an industry group, said this week that unit
revenue for the largest carriers jumped 8 percent in July, compared with a
decline of 0.4 percent so far this year.

The association also said that passenger traffic fell 1 percent in July but that
airlines filled a record 82 percent of their seats, thanks mainly to cuts in
capacity.

Tague, former chief executive of discounter ATA Airlines, was hired by United in
early May. He is responsible for marketing, advertising, sales, reservations and
frequent-flier programs.

Since he arrived, United has launched a series of promotions aimed mainly at
attracting business passengers back to the airline. Tague said bookings in
September reflect a strong response to the latest promotion, which is geared
toward leisure travelers.

Randy Petersen of InsideFlyer, a Colorado Springs-based publication for members
of airline frequent-flier programs, said Tague has succeeded somewhat in
reviving United`s brand, which has been tarnished by poor service and financial
struggles.

"For the first few months this year, they were doing nothing but apologizing and
putting a positive spin on being in bankruptcy to begin with," Petersen said.

"Now they`re concentrating on leveraging their strengths. It looks like they`re
going back to things that aren`t new or innovative, but have been tried
successfully in the past."

[V.Mac]

nur zur Erinnerung, ist bereits vom 10.6.2003:

UAL nennt Aktien "von wenig oder keinem Wert" - Kurs bricht um Hälfte ein

NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) - Die unter Gläubigerschutz stehende Muttergesellschaft von United Airlines, die UAL Corp. , hat in einer Eingabe an die US-Börsenaufsicht die ausstehenden UAL-Aktien als "von geringem oder keinem Wert" bezeichnet. UAL nannte es am Dienstag zudem "sehr wahrscheinlich", dass diese Papiere im Zuge jedweden Sanierungsplanes gestrichen würden. Die Vermögenswerte de UAL reichten nicht für eine sinnvolle Verteilung an die Aktionäre aus.

Die seit dem Antrag auf Gläubigerschutz im vergangenen Dezember "over-the-counter" gehandelten UAL-Aktien gingen daraufhin auf Sturzflug. Der Aktienkurs büßte 58,92 Prozent auf 76 US-Cent ein. Zeitweilig war der Titel auf 64 Cent eingebrochen./FX/ari/fn

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Das soll nicht heissen, dass es nicht doch ne Rettung für UAL gibt. Ich wollte nur mal auf die Einschätzung der Muttergesellschaft hinweisen. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass sich diese Einschätzung in den letzten drei Monaten wesentlich geändert hat.

Aber einen Zock ist es allemal wert. Mehr ist es wohl (leider) nicht.

V.Mac

[V.Mac]

tja, so kommts....

Wer tatsächlich im August zu rund 60 €Cent eingestiegen ist, kann sich bis heute über satte 100% Gewinn freuen...

V.Mac