Originally Posted by justfun

Here at AA, the one size fits all airline, HR has a tremendous amount of leverage. The management side has a large amount of ex FA's that literally hate this pilot group. They don't want us to have something that they perceive as being a bonus for only the pilot group and not any other group.

If you saw the article a week or so back, where the FA's on a 777 bound for SA, had an unrully pax that they had to subdue twice, they came out in public and criticized the CA for not diverting right away. They did this anonymously, but the simple fact that they thought it was ok to do this in public is typical of the attitude on the other side of the door. To the company's credit they came out and said it was the CA's decision period.

We have been fighting this for years. So the comment by the FA at the gate about the jumpseater sitting in first is typical.

We have a long way to go on this atmosphere being changed.