Originally Posted by
Otterbox
Granted AA is suffering from an image problem (****ty service, bitter employees, no profit sharing for their pilot group, messy messy mergers, slave driving regionals) and is having issues staffing them as a result, but Why would AA want to shut its WOs down? They generate $$$$. They're providing lift cheaper than doing it as mainline flying and with cheaper pilot groups than at their contract regionals...
There is no image problem that I'm aware of. Most flights I see are going out full on AA. Their image is "fly us or don't, we don't care because we'll go out full anyway". Is that the image problem you mean?