Originally Posted by sanicom3205

Anyway….

”As a result, whenever there was a recovery, American could never participate in it. It structurally surrendered an advantaged position to its competitors. Because it was just so hell-bent on cost take-out.”

“The airline that figures out a way to not furlough people, particularly pilots, ....they are going to come out of this on top.”

All of this from our chief revenue officer Vasa Raja last year. So they predicted how to “win the recovery” (their words), yet did the exact opposite of what they said we needed to do. Flash forward to present day, where we are cancelling 50-80 of our flights daily through at least the middle of July. That’s roughly 1% of our operation.

Will this bring about any changes in the way this dumpster fire is run? We took government cash, paid pilots to sit home and didn’t train anyone until it was too late. Imagine doing your job as poorly as management does theirs. We’d be auguring planes in, and the training department would get flushed instantly.