As a furloughed AA'er, yes, I agree, there's something wrong. From my very distant and generally disinterested view of things at AA, they are happy to wait until the absolute last possible moment to start recalling in any large numbers, no matter what the retirement numbers are, no matter what the pax loads are, no matter what...

Supposedly, they have gone through close to 100 names to get the initial 10 bodies for the first trickle of recalls. As they get deeper into the list, I can only imagine they will have a harder time getting takers to come back. I have no idea how long guys that they are calling now have been on the street, but I know I've been away for over 5 years now. I've moved on, and I would imagine so have most others, so hiring off the street will be in the cards at some point, but way too hard to tell at this stage of things as to exactly when.

For now, they seem content to continue shrinking to profitability - parking planes, cutting back on routes, not bringing back furloughed employees to meet what appears to be heavily increasing demand. Maybe they know something we all don't...?