what do you say when you hear doug parker say you guys are getting illegal subsidyies? >> well i'm afraid doug is unfortunately, very long in what he's saying. we will demonstrate unequivocally and very transparently the allegations that are being made about emirates with regard to subsidies and everything else are complete nonsense and we welcome now the opportunity to respond to the report which contained the allegations about subsidies to the various entities within the united states government and we'll do that shortly. >> tim, you're already in nine cities in the u.s. is this going to slow down your expansion at all? >> no i don't think so. we will continue as we have done providing excellent products connecting people in these cities to other parts of the world that we serve and the american carriers actually don't, providing high quality products at price points that people can afford. we're an affordable competitor which people value and i'm sure that we will be allowed to continue on that basis and, by the way, we will disprove the alleges allegations made again

this is what doug parker's job is.me out of bankruptcy with his debts wiped out and labor negotiations made easier his stock has more than doubled. bill: crocodile tears. stephanie: with your stock up that much, i have a feeling he doesn't even flight commercial. he was able to fly with dropdead gorgeous air hostesses? matt: flying with different 20 years ago. there was a different kind of staff on american airlines and everything. stephanie: this conversation is about to go down. that was a horrible word choice. thank you so much. coming up, meets the russian legislator who is the only one to vote against annexing the crimea. he's no longer welcome in his hometown. there's a place for him in new york. it's friday. time to play the yearbook game. check this guy out. he's a ceo, graduated from memphis university school in tennessee in 1962. this picture was from his freshman year. send us your guesses on twitter, send it to the show at market makers at bloomberg tv. you can send it to me at s ruhle. let us know. cutie p

doug parker thinks they are threatening jobs.parker: we are happy to compete and love to compete. it is not on a level playing field. that is not good for the united states and is not good for jobs. it is therefore something we think we should have consultations about. cory: they argue state owned airlines are getting subsidies, allowing them to offer artificially low airfare. google has unveiled its google play app store. it wants to address concerns parents have on children's smartphones. google will also start using a team of human experts. humans at google, yes. they will review submissions before they are allowed into the app store. twitter and rhapsody teaming up to make a music streaming site's songs available within the social network. it says subscribers will be able to post songs to twitter. they will get a free trial of twitter. the partnership is twitter's latest attempt to get users to listen to posts. return back to our special guest host this hour. maynard webb joins us and also jed york, getting ready for super bo

we'll hear from ceo doug parker.pple reportedly in talks with programmers about plans to launch online tv service this fall. the end of an era, microsoft reportedly dropping the internet explorer brand. >>> first up futures falling amid a slide in february housing results as the fed gets ready to kick off the meeting. it's the biggest miss on starts according to the spoke since '07. >> holy cow. >> hard to build a house in february. >> we were among the weakest countries in the world during the month of february. it's funny what the fed's going to doen they look at february building homes fewer when we had half as many people in the country, household formation not good, rent's going up. it's worrisome. it's worrisome. you can't lose housing. housing punches above its weight as john stupmf would tell you. >> looking past it? >> no. you don't need -- if they get rid of "patient" word it's happening at a time -- i would like to see march data because i've got to tell you, february data indicates that you should be cutt

doug parker, the ceo of american airlines. will be hanging out, covering the event for you all day. betty: thank you. matt miller in washington for us. we will have more, including another ceo -- dominoes. ♪ betty: you are watching "in the loop p code good morning. let the madness begin. have you fill your bracket out? companies like dom and is -- companies like dominoes sold more than 1.7 million highs during last year's game. enough to get 25 feet -- 25 pizzas to each person walking to the final game in indianapolis. patrick doyle joins us now. it is great to have you back on the program. what are you going to do different? patrick: we have a 50% off deal. customers order online and they get a terrific deal. the important thing is that we handle it. it is busy the next three weeks. we are hiring people, staffing up our stores, training folks to give our customers a great experience. it is getting going now. we would like to grow over last year. betty: i asked you this last year, how does this compare to the other big sportin

guy: that was doug parker discussing the complaint u.s.arriers have about state aid to gulf airlines. middle east editors say they do not have it straight. here is tim clark. guy: we need to respond -- >> we need to respond to the allegations and they released a report that we need to sift through. francine: coming up, we talked to the chief executive and they had some earnings out today. it will be interesting to have his take on the changes. for the moment, it seems that he will not. we will try to find out why. guy: we will find out what his take is on the gulf carriers. maybe it is the u.s. carrier business. what does he think about that auction market we are on the brink right now. the declines keep coming. francine: back in the bear market. we look at the budgets as george osborne pledges there were no gimmicks or giveaways in the pre-election budget. ♪ francine: welcome back. breaking news out of the u.k. guy: we are guessing the average wage growth not good news. unemployment rate stays at 5.7. the estimate was that was going to di

we'll talk to doug parker at 8:00 eastern.wo new studies finds gilead's hepatitis c drugs are largely cost effective in the u.s. but researchers are cautioning the widespread use will be a significant cost for the nation's health care system they spent like 2%. >> does that surprise you. >> it was a frightening article. it was a 39-year-old man that needed a heart valve and he was waiting in the hospital for the heart valve. they said we have no surgical instruments or heart valves. you need to be discharged and go home. so he went home and waited and he finally died. but everybody has health care in venezuela. everybody is covered but nobody can get it. >> yeah. >> basically there's nothing down there because of supply and demand. hopefully we're never faced with anything similar here. >> other corporate news this morning, pinterest raising $367 million in it's latest round of funding. that brings it's valuation to $11 billion. it's still looking to raise more money. in other media news disney is in early talks to back draft

matt spoke with the ceo, doug parker. doug: we should be in the s&p 500.gest airline in the world. those are metrics that get us well into the s&p 500. this is an airline in bankruptcy 15 months ago before the merger. it was a bankrupt airline. to be in the s&p 500 15 months later shows the strength of the merger. matt: they have done great. bankruptcy protection is super helpful. even better than a bailout. you get your debt wiped clean. it is easy to do labor negotiations. add to that the drop in fuel prices and they happen killing it. american airlines or u.s. carriers are buying back stock. they are returning money to shareholders for the first time since i started 15 years ago. alex: it's interesting for a have infrastructure heavy business -- it is their time to get into the s&p and get that notability. betty: let's get a check on where futures have settled on this friday. features now settling higher. our top story is next. ♪ betty: welcome back to "in the loop." are number one story today is not matt's jacket, it is the u.s. currency weakening head

and we had doug parker on the american airlines ceo. so now it's like windfall profits tax. when they come down they're on their own. it's the same thing. why shouldn't airlines be allowed to reinvest so margins go to six to ten. so they reinvest. next time they put some money away -- >> no, no. i'm with you, joe. >> it's a ridiculous notion. >> no. it's not. oligopoly. he's very animated about this. >> there are monopolies and perfect competition. everything in between would work. there's a big barrier to entry and there's a lot of money to do it and it's hard to come in and compete, there are going to be certain routes where only one or two airlines -- >> let me ask you a single question. you fly a lot. i fly maybe more than you do. >> it's the best deal in town compared to 30 years ago. >> really? >> it used to be $800 to fly to california in the '70s. >> but how competitive does it feel to you? that's the issue i get. >> did it feel competitive when all the legacy carriers had to go bankrupt or merge? that was competitive. what did

parker was wearing brass knuckles. >> i believe he did have on brass knuckles just because of the injury itself and how he cut the teacher's eye. >> after the teacher is taken care of, doug estle starts the investigation into who could have done this. several years earlier murphy high school installed an elaborate system of cameras for security purposes. they have used it in the past to catch petty thieves and late-night break-ins, but this is the first for an assault of this magnitude. >> a couple of my assistant principals went to the camera room and immediately started backing it up and taking a look at who it was. we also had students already in the hallway who identified both young men. >> and because of the tapes and the student identifications, the police were able to apprehend the suspects quickly. mobile district attorney john tyson. >> well, the tape speaks for itself. we have two young men who are in on it. one is to take photographs. the other is going to actually accomplish the assault. and we can clearly see, as the teacher walks out, that the ambush is on, and he throws a haymaker and floors the teacher right there in the hall. >> randolph parker is charge