All this did was anger more pilots and make the minimum acceptable bar for a contract that much higher. Regardless of whether things "calm down" or not (and I think they will to some degree), it will not make passing the next TA easier whenever that is as many, many AA pilots have no further interest in negotiating with these people ever, let alone anytime in the near future.

Most at this point just prefer to limp along until at least till January and perhaps even through the BK. It may be easier to convince the BOD of a deal, but getting the pilots to ratify anything will be a much more difficult task. IMO, the damage to this employee group is now irrepairable and I think there's little chance of most of these 7500 employees ever truly caring about the future of this carrier again and I'm baffled how anyone thinks they can salvage the situation at this point.