Originally Posted by NEDude

One thing that is missed here regarding the AA taxi speeds, it is not all about "job action". It has been discussed many times on other forums: AA has been accused of being very captain oriented and as such the procedures tend to require a lot of work on the captains part during the taxi, stuff the F/O tends to do on a lot of other airlines. As a result of the workload on the captains part, they tend to taxi slower.