Originally Posted by
tropflyer
This is all about optics and always has been. No pilot should care about the optics to other employee groups. They’ve placated the other groups anyway by offering 65-hour SILs if they “self-identify” as wanting one.
AA has set the industry standard for achieving cost savings right now. Delta management is failing at this miserably and will continue to do so as long as it obsesses over anti-union optics and reduced ALVs.
One “advantage” the management at AA has over ours, is that if you’ve followed discussions amongst their own pilots and others, is that AA management has had a fixation on reducing overhead for some time, trending towards a race to the bottom to basically turn themselves into an LCC in terms of costs and services.
I’m certainly amongst those that thinks our own management has behaved emotionally versus logically when it comes to honest dealing with the pilot group. Regrettable, but what we can see of their actions don’t make a ton of sense in the current environment.