After review, it is with heavy heart that I must inform all that the APA has hideously failed its pilots again. I'll take my chances going forward into the unknown and will be unquestionably voting no. If it passes, it's clear management will have carte blanche to mangle what's left of a once great airline into regional airline status.

As an Eagle refugee, it only means I'm going back home to where I was. Oh, the planes will be bigger, but the "career" will have left the building. It's possible that in a month or so, there will only be 2 legacy carriers (United, Delta). If AA flies E-190's we will get paid less then Jet Blue. Our Airbus rates will be at the bottom of the barrel and scope gutted. The APA claimed they wouldn't send us anything that wasn't Industry Standard and this isn't even close. To those at United and Delta, I can only hope the PILOTS here stand up to their own union and vote this down, for if not, then we will be the new "bar" for your management teams to ratchet you down in the future. Since you have new contracts pending, that will likely take years, so they may have to redouble their outsourcing efforts anew to compete. My apologies for what has occured here, as it is not the majority of the AA pilots who have failed you, but a handful of our "representatives".