Originally Posted by
mainlineAF
Well for one the AA CEO and higher level execs are paid mostly in stock and their responsibility is to the shareholders. Dumping seats into a market would make the stock price decline and they'd make less money in the short term. Most of these management teams are short-sighted and not interested in taking a loss now to maybe pay off in the future.
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That is very true, and it does have one good effect: managers will not spend the vast sums necessary to replace even one pilot with a robot or remote link. The break-even point would not arrive until years later.