Originally Posted by
eaglefly
I think most are under no illusions that a compensation model for every employee group must be in place that is competitive. AMR is asking the employees (and especially the pilots) to finance Horton's plan, but so far there IS no real plan. Hopefully, Parker may offer something in both business plan and competitive compensation that is successful.
Apparently, AMR believes it CANNOT be competitive with DAL or UAL labor costs and must go drastically below those. Yet (oddly), BOTH those carriers are turning sustained profits with those compensation packages (at least for pilots).
Therefore, as far as I'm concerned either AMR management is either an opportunistic, manipulative liar or they are admitting their own inability to manage this carrier. If they cannot do what competing management can do with equal costs, what does that say ?
It says to me, long-term, this management team is just as likely, if not more to put this carrier back in BK. I mean really, if you look at the last 10 years, it's tough to find anything substantive.
So, you'd give no credit to US, DAL and UAL's trek through the BK courts as the reason for their current success models(though that arguable in some cases), while at the same time you appear to suggest that AA suck it up and maintain the cost disadvantage relative to our peers.
That's an interesting argument. I guess after going through BK twice in the past decade, you're figuring that Doug and the team have worked out all the kinks in the system by now and things should be fine from here forward!
Maybe so, time will tell!
I do appreciate the discourse and your willingness to engage on the issues.
Best,
Tomahawk58