Originally Posted by
AAL24
The difference between a 30 year career at Delta, United, FedEx, UPS and AAL is probably >$1,000,000. Choose wisely. People will tell you contracts come and go and you will move up the list faster at AA. That’s partially true but the facts are you will earn 20-30+% less at AAL in total compensation.
if APA screws up this bargaining round you are probably looking at another 10 year stretch where the avg DAL CA makes $50k+ per year above his/her counterpart at AA.
Absolutely. You’ll also be flying more hours and staying at substandard hotels. The optimizer is butchering our quality of life and the hotels are getting worse every month. Unfortunately managements talk about changing the culture is just rhetoric to keep the workers rowing. A lot of us had hope for this management team......that’s gone. The union is outclassed when dealing with management and too arrogant to see it. If you come to AA keep updating your apps at Delta and FedEx.