I'm at AA...there's disgruntled pilots at every airline. There's also plenty of AA pilots who are happy (or at least content) with their job. While it's true our contract is arguably the "worst" in the industry, it's not completely miserable, and the SWA FO refugees I've flown with lately seem to not mind it. As for the BK rumors...it's highly unlikely that AA will declare BK, short of a deep global economic crisis (anything could happen I suppose). The main issue with AA is our management's unique talent of pulling in the most overall revenue but posting the least profit. They aren't very efficient, to say the least.

Regarding the AIP...very little information is known at this point beyond a few bullet points. It's unlikely that this AIP will create snap-up gains for DAL pilots, as AA seems to have settled on basically matching DAL pay. From what I've seen, there are some modest and decent work-rule gains, and some disappointments (hoping we'd get more sick time accrual). There's also some unknowns...we don't know what (or if) there's any updated language for trip trading, which is one sore spot as previously the company could arbitrarily set the trading/drop parameters unilaterally, and lately they've made it very difficult to trade or drop anything.