Originally Posted by
AAL24
I vehemently disagree with that but it’s ok to have differing opinions. The whole point of scope is defining which aircraft need to be flown by mainline. My biggest concern is that 10 years from now our massive armada of narrowbody aircraft will be feeding the 777/380/350 fleets of QANTAS, BA, China Southern and LATAM.
It would be nice if APA spent some time and energy worrying about scope on the widebody side as well. Our JBV language is lacking in regards to dividing international growth flying.
By the way you shouldn’t be worrying about profitability. Parker gets $70 million for worrying about profitability. We should be worried about meeting and/or exceeding industry standard work rules and compensation.
Most guys have your opinion. They don't care about AA's profitability at all and their efforts at work show it. And they wonder why we aren't paid as well as Delta or United, or even SWA.
I don't care what I fly. If long haul loses money I want our JV partners to lose the money, not us. Wanting to fly big airplanes is just a form of SJS.
The more money the company makes the more we can be paid. If the company doesn't make money, over a long enough time period, we will cease to get paid at all.
A lot of JV stuff is compromise. The other countries want their share of the flying as well.