If you are new to AA you probably won't notice it as much, yet. The waters have been somewhat "calm" lately.

I think there has been a positive shift since the merger but a lot of it is just for show PR BS lately. Not buying most of the peptalk they are selling that is not backed up by real action. I'll give them some credit, Some things ARE getting better and some things have changed but a lot of things are the same as they have been forever.

This company still has a really bad employee vs management mentality and until they get rid of that there will be no real change. There is still pretty much no accountability for anything in the decision making chain here. You will likely see everyone on both sides true colors again when contract negotiations come around and all of a sudden nobody can afford anything anymore on management side, and the mass number of senior retiring pilots willing to throw the junior half of the list under the bus to "get theirs". We will soon see how much the company has "really" changed their us vs them mentality when the new contract is in the works. I hope it has changed for the better but have my doubts. "Employee's just don't have much impact on profitability" says Doug Parker, AA CEO.....

Everyone in management ranks still passes the blame on down the line so nothing ever really gets fixed here like it should. Valid and logical ideas to save money, improve morale or make things better are virtually always ignored and even stupider ideas are implemented in their place, then of course those almost always fail miserably at the expense of millions of dollars and ****ed off passengers.

Is it less toxic than it was? I think so, but not drastically when you get to the core of it. I have seen a small change for the better though over the past few years. At my last position I worked with management more closely than I did as a regular old line pilot and still saw the exact same toxic mentality that we have had for years, still in full action and proceeding forward. Until that crap is all cleaned out. Good luck.

On a good note, I have seen some really awful management who should not be in charge of a lawn mower lose their positions over the past few years which is a positive sign. Then half the time they just replace them with questionable characters that shouldn't be in those positions either which is another story.

Will we be in the top 1,000 best places to work list by 2020? No. Maybe we make the top 50,000? Lol. Which is better than we were at somewhere around #489,512, 7 or 8 years ago. So we have that going for us!