I'm not excusing the horrible schedules here, but we can't forget that it's going to be tough to have decent block/credit lines when we are flying jets on 100-150 mile segments. It wasn't as big of problem when we were cruising at 215kts at 8,000 feet everywhere.

There are some longer routes slowly trickling in but so far there isn't enough to have any tangible impact on the situation yet. Then things are compounded by doing one or two legs a day more often than we should.

The cities we fly to and the frequency at which we fly to them greatly impacts the ability to build nice schedules. All of that is handed down to us by AA. Add in the archaic structure of our company and leadership that is frequently in over their heads, and well, it makes it pretty sucky here.