I'm willing to bet he is one of the clueless hacks hired during the previous VP of Flight's tenure.

No senior Manager at AMR hired anyone below he/she that could be a future threat to their own position because the subordinate could viewed as more capable than their boss. The only recent change to that behavior was the hiring of the current VP of Flight who is sharp and a good leader, but with about as much power to do any real good as my dog. IMHO, he was hired because the FAA had enough of flight hiring inexperienced Chief's. that is one major reason why I want the LCC deal to go through.

The AA Flight Department has needed a complete flushing for 20 years. As I said in a previous post, I believe the entire TWA FLT DEP should have sent all of the DFW staff back to the line. Personally, I've gotten real tired of endless mispelled, badly formatted, incorrect and revised 3 times, company bulletins that some hack at DFW screwed up in between playing rounds of 9 square Suduko during their typical 10:30am-3:15 "workday".

TH's latest post proves my point. "Douggie is in it for himself" No S%%t genius.

I could care less if he likes me or my fellow pilots. If I want a real friend, I'll dress my dog in a manager's suit.