Because they couldn't continue their friends and family plan with no street hires.

You guys have a lot of catch up work to do learning about AA managers. Just like we had catch up to do on learing about Parker, Kirby, Isom and crew. Many managers at all levels of AA are not fans of the regionals or the flow thru programs.

At one point in the endless litigations over the flow thru programs under AMR/AA they actually had to go hire a mediation company to mediate fighting between different AA managers within their own airline. It wasn't a case of APA-ALPA-AA-AMR fighting... it was the AA groups fighting among themelves at that point. Training fighting with HR and stuff like that. You guys have a lot of catch up learning to do.