Tomahawk58

Now that the hype has started to wane just a bit, let's take a dispassionate look at where things stand:

1. You have to really love a CEO whose willing to engage in a midnight tryst with the APA, then promise them DAL + 3 percent but won't bring his own pilots, FA's and FSC's together let alone bring their wages and benefits up to AA's standards; forget DAL's! (APA said they got more down in a week than 5 years. How long have you US folks been trying with Doug?)

2. Aside from a small wage increase, Doug promise very little above what AA is currently proposing in the term sheets before the courts.
- Identical DC plans (the cards are shuffled slightly but the amount comes out virtually the same.
- Scope is virtually the same in both proposals - the commuters get 1/2 the number of ac as the mainline in either proposal.
- PBS is on both lists.
- Sick is actually even more restrictive at US. Our pilots currently top 9 percent on the sick list on any given day. Nothing like helping the company that pays our salary. Nah, sitting home and whining is much better.
- Job protection. Let see, we AA pilots come out the best with about 400 job cuts, but when you factor in deliveries, the number will probably be even smaller. Does anyone seriously believe Doug will carry an additional 30,000 employees in a post-merger AA/US relative to DAL and UAL?

3. Interestingly enough, the APA has pulled out all the stops to sell what is essentially, a modest pay raise by attempting to cast their lot with Doug.

4. The height of hubris in my opinion is the APA's position that we (AA) are better off to merge during the BK process. I guess those DAL folks didn't have a clue as to what they were doing by telling Doug thanks but no!

5. If anyone believes the APA and Doug attempted to cut a back room deal because they're concern about the employees at US, don't kid yourself.

6. We keep believing absent a sustained profitable model at AA, US or any public company worth anything we can continue to operate.

7. The ultimate irony is that the US folks on this board and some AA guys with their own agendas discounts US's 2 trips down BK lane, along with DAL, NWA, CO and UAL BK visits, but takes AA to task for getting its cost under control across the entire company. Every single employee at AA is impacted by this not just us pilots!

8. Many on this forum have never allowed fact to stand up to emotion!

9. AA will present it's POR by 9/28/12. Doug has not presented anything yet other than hollow promises backed up he hopes by AA's cash! Sort like a man attempting to steal another's wife then asking the wife to take the husband's money so the two of them can live happily ever after. Well, it sometime works in the movies, but real life is another story altogether.

Those who believe they are "entitled" will always feel that way!