Originally Posted by
NERD
Could you be a bigger *****? You support essentially the same management team as before minus Arpey. All the talk of raising revenue by billions that your dream team is espousing. Why the F$$% have they not tried that since your 2003 capitulation? Clue, they are full of it and are out of airspeed and altitude. If it was so easy to increase revenue by 2B a year, it would have been done. They have no plan but to have labor pay for their mistakes. The sad part is that you are buying into it. Just admit it, that you are safe in your seniority and don't care about those below you. You want to just make it through to your retirement(wishing it gets frozen). At 23 years you were probably a bit too young to retire early and take the lump sum, too old to start over but are willing to throw the junior pilots under the bus to suit your needs. Doesn't surprise me from a late 80s AA hire. Plenty of airlines hiring without a horrendous B scale but you went there. Either got turned down or never offered an interview elsewhere.
Nerd -
Of course I'm safe at my seniority level and and it's an earned one. This is my company and I'm here because I chose to be here and I'm quite proud of that fact. What part of my loyalty comment didn't you get?
You're right, I have supported the leadership team headed by Gerard during his tenure, after all, he spent his entire career(30 years+) at AA. I also supported Mr Crandall's team before that.
Life for me has never been about quick fixes, selfish expediency, or pie in the sky dreams. If that causes you consternation, so be it.
AA has been an incredible airline for more than 80 years and will continue to be so.
Diehard AAer for life and proud of it

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