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By a couple bucks an hour? Who cares?
AA's reserve language blows United's out of the water. United's is so bad, they can't even entice new hires to a $300k a year position.
After being in the bottom 10 CA's system wide, I grew to appreciate the AA contract.
People are bi-polar. In one instance they talk up QOL, in the other they fixate on a carrier making a couple dollars an hour more than them. APA has specialists that cost out the contracts (I think they use ALPA) and ours is right up there in terms of overall costs to the company.
I agree that people hate on the company too much and I think that AA is very underrated by too many applicants who are only focused on DL and UA. However, I think you are being too much of a prisoner of the moment if you are saying that you don't care if United AND Delta (snap up) exceed our pay prior to us voting and your justification is United's current reserve rules. Things change quickly.
Though I am fairly happy with the current TA, we have to be willing to adapt our mindset if circumstances change. Not doing so would be nothing less than settling.