Originally Posted by
Sliceback
It's a subject that's come up several times, online, in person, or over the phone. Guys read posters complaining about AA and wonder if it's a lousy place to work. The complainers number 10? 20? 30 posters? Out of 14,000 pilots. What's funny is when the complainers are guys who even don't work at AA. Or the guy that has only found one decent AA pilot. He's interacted with how many AA pilots and only one was a decent guy?? Of course it has nothing to do with how he interacts with people...
The flipside is the comments from new hires talking about how decent their training or first couple of years have been. It's not perfect, everyone you interact with isn't great, but if you're thinking about NOT coming to AA because of what guys post you're making a mistake. Keep in mind almost no one leaves once they arrive even when they have other offers.
The glass is half full or half empty?
I agree that pilots in general whine and b!tch, but AA has some serious issues: Union leadership, what a joke! $3600 dinner, numerous efforts to f up the jumpseat, A321 pay (didn't that one backfire, did it?), the whole profit sharing drama (do you want more $ or no?), last leg trip swap (flying someone's leg for free? Are you ___?), and lots of other little things we used to have were given away! Why? Because they didn't make sense to APA. See, those boys running APA have been living in their own bubble of awesomeness that they kinda missed keeping up with times.
If the original poster thinks that *****ing is isolated and comes repeatedly from the same guys, then he/she should look at other corners of the Web. C&R, various Facebook groups etc do NOT currently present an airline what it potentially could be. A lot of it is self-inflicted.