The airline had a bloated workforce, ageing fleet and below-average operational record.
He becomes involved as part of a bankruptcy process at a time when the companies are renegotiating their debt, including the plane lease contracts, bringing the cost of the fleet often below that of most competitors.
Because airlines are constantly updating their cabins and fleets, the figures listed below are subject to change.
While most of the boats in the Westport fleet operate well below capacity so there is plenty of space for casting and catching, some say the new Coast Guard rules will hurt their bottom line in other ways.
They argue that the makers of small cars, which sell so many more vehicles, should have to do more to reduce emissions perhaps by reducing their fleet averages well below the EU's proposed 130g/km limit.Intensive lobbying by BMW and Mercedes, with support from the EU's industry commissioner, Günter Verheugen (who happens to be German), and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has had some effect.
Generally condemned by Fleet Street as being a below-average, sub-Everage ripoff, the Irish mammy drag-act achieved huge audiences, arguably as a result of enthusiasm on social media.
But US Airways would have the right to reject two leases on 737-300's if it trimmed its fleet of mainline planes below 260 aircraft.
"The fleet is now way below the critical mass required for the many tasks which could confront it, if the international scene continues to deteriorate.
Daimler will have to bring down its fleet's emissions to below 140 grams of carbon dioxide by 2012 or else risk fines.
Advocates of shipbuilding on Capitol Hill say the Navy needs to build eight or more ships a year to prevent the fleet from falling much below its current level of about 310 ships.
