Just because we occasionally hear a pilot for any given airline make a snide comment here or there, does not mean the pilot group he/she works with as a whole is any less of a "great bunch of folks". Trust me when I say that the occasionally vocal loudmouth both on the airwaves and here at APC is not representative of any of the airline's pilot groups here - Regional or Major. Typically, comments like you describe simply elicit huge, embarrassed eye-rolls in the other cockpits from the same airline.

AWAC, Compass, Skywest, Horizon, PDT, PSA, Envoy, TSA, Endeavor, etc., are all full of great men and women.

Your comment about the supposed opinion of "real" AA pilots is generally wrong too. Which folks do you want to call "real"? The nAAtives hired off the street? The USAIR folks? The original Piedmont pilots? The America West pilots? TWA pilots? AirCal pilots? Reno pilots? The original PSA pilots? The thousand or so flows from the former American Eagle, now Envoy (many of whom are now Captains at AA), and now PDT and PSA?

Believe me when I tell you that you'd get along great with pilots from any of the airlines I've mentioned - Regional and Major - unless, of course, you're one of every airline's 5% group - those pilots who can't seem to get along with anybody.