Originally Posted by R57 relay

Seems like I remember a post forwarded from C&R(before we had access) saying just that. That AA pilots didn't want the 321 paying 757 pay because of SLI implications. Short sighted, IMHO.

I know I will get rocks thrown at me for this, but I don't expect the company to open up pay rates mid contract, unless they got something for it. If every airline raised it's payrates to the next highest we'd have a never ending cost spiral.

What I'd like to see changed are some the legacy AA policies and practices that don't help the company or pilots. Take one tiny issue-hotel assignments and having them on pairings. I sent an email to the APA hotel rep about that. For my entire time at US we had that two months before the month started. You could bid around cities like LA, if it had several hotels and you didn't like a location. He said AA couldn't because they don't allocate the rooms until late the month before. No, they could do it, we've seen it done. It would just take a change in mindset.

I don't like a lot of the changes since single FOS. My morale is the lowest it's been in a while. But I think most things are fixable and wouldn't discourage pilots from coming to AA over the things that irritate me. On a day to day basis it's a good company, with good people making a good living.