So you think we should have kept the S80's and 757's? They're an improvement over the a/c we're getting?!?! When did you get hired??

That's a 'despute'..

 

I agree. We should have been taking AB NEOSs, 737 MAXs, 787-1000s, and A350-1000s last year. Oh wait...

 

Not to pick nits, but BOS is not an AA hub.

It is an O&D city. And most of the flights out of BOS are to the other hubs (PHL, CLT, DCA, ORD, DFW, MIA, PHX, LAX, etc.) with a few exceptions.

This has been BOS's raison d'être for years now.

LUS used to have non-stops from BOS to many places, including most cities in Florida and the Caribbean, and even FRA for a time. It was the Wolf regime that decided that everybody flying out of BOS to anywhere --like, Florida or the Caribbean in the winter, the West Coast, or Europe --would have to go through PHL, DCA, or CLT to get to their destination.
(And to sucker them into doing this, they would charge ten bucks less for a ticket from BOS to MCO than other airlines were charging for their non-stops.)

Pre-merger LAA management whittled their once strong BOS operation down to practically nothing. (I think someone posted here recently that there are only 230-something pilots left in that domicile.)

They let BA take over all of the BOS-LHR flying, and handed the Caribbean -- including the once huge SJU operation -- to B6, on a silver platter.

And most of the departures out of the B1 side of the airport these days are E-190's or regionals.

This is why I think BOS's days as an independent crew domicile are numbered.

It is half the size of the LUS BOS base, when it was closed. And the latter was supporting the Shuttle operation, which is now operated by out-of-base crews.

 

Word from the Training Dept. is that the A350 is going to DFW.

And that's where the sim(s) will be installed.

 

Pssst. This is American Airlines. Dallas is where ALL the sims will be installed.

 

Dallas is THE center of the universe!

 

So you consider his opinion useless because he hasn't become jaded by this cancer you spread?

Good attitudes are refreshing.

You're relatively new it sounds like.... Leave. I'm sure jet blue or virgin would hire you. And they have the sweet advertising you admire so much.

 

You are absolutely right that I need to be more positive. I was beyond fortunate to get hired here, and all of us can say the same thing. Every time I check in for a trip I thank my lucky stars my number hit. I was fired up after seeing how bad the support staffing has fallen on the Express side on that commute.

I'm incredibly frustrated at what this place could be, yet see many bad moves being made over and over again (I've been in the US system about a decade). I'm starting to feel the same frustration myself as guys who were on property for Wolf's billion dollar buy back then subsequent bankruptcy. And the Piedmont management flush. And the PSA purchase that never really secured more routes after they essentially bought them and shut them down.

I've never seen a jetBlue ad but have seen an AA ad...on TV. It wasn't very good.

This latest storm has not given me much hope. The company was completely unprepared for this even though they had ample warning. Hopefully they learn from it. Wilson's latest email seems to agree with a lot of what I've said as well.

I'm a firm believer in giving the company the benefit of the doubt. Often times they make mistakes. It's how they handle the mistakes that dictates their future success.

 

Um, never mind PSA, how about the first Piedmont. The second worst merger ever after PAA and National. Piedmont was the best airline ever and Colodny absolutely ruined it. Wolf ruined USAir.

 

Hey guys I see many posts in multiple threads relating how American is doing poor in customer service and is taking the bronze. Well I have to say I try to fly American exclusively, including three legs to get to Anchorage this month just so I can fly American.

I love the product and was impressed with the customer service when they cancelled my Monday flight to Europe on Saturday evening.