Anyone who's company is mentioned in the same breath as AA, should be afraid. Very afraid. AA management has a hideous record of acquiring other companies. The APA knows this and must be rabid about protecting itself. It's not management that suffers when mergers and acquisitions are badly done, it's the APA membership. Even at the time, and especially in retrospect, the APA should have fought the TWA acquisition harder. APA and TWA pilots would be better off now if TWA was allowed to continue towards its own destiny.
Letter of thanks for the debacle can be sent to Don Carty, Gerald Arpey and all the other lemmings in Centerport with the big heads.