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This should make some AMR people happy. But probably not..... :angryfire Flame alert:nuts:

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/...atest-american-airlines-management-cuts.html/

We’re waiting to see the scale of the latest American Airlines management cuts
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By Terry Maxon/Reporter
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10:32 am on June 6, 2012 | Permalink
As the reorganization slices its way down lower into American Airlines management ranks, we expect the number of people to let go to increase. But we don’t know how many will be told Wednesday that regrettably, their services will no longer be needed.

Probably by mid-afternoon, the airline will release details on this round of cuts. I suppose we could call it the fourth round:

1. Executive vice presidents, from three (authorized) to zero, Dec. 6, 2011.

2. Senior vice presidents, from 14 to 10, announced Feb. 15, 2012.

3. Vice presidents, May 1, 2012.

We understand that this round of job cuts will focus on managing directors, the level right under vice presidents, although the line probably won’t be precise.

We’ll update when possible.

By the time this is all finished in late summer, American expects to eliminate 15 percent of its management and support people and 20 percent of the costs in those areas.
 
They really need someone from the outside to wack the entire management team, and start over from scratch. Isn't that what Bethune did?
 
Salt the earth. No shred of this sick, twisted, vicious corporate "culture" should remain after this bankruptcy.

TC
 
As you well know, this industry is notorious for hiring retreads from other companies. Particularly failing/failed ones. Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

What this industry needs is for failed business models and/or weak businesses to go away.

Yeah, that'll hurt, but as one that has experienced it, you will survive.
 
Every AMR manager for the last decade has followed the practice of not promoting anybody who is a threat to the manager above him. This practice has extended up to the Senior VP levels and the proof of this is the complete trashing of the AA brand and dysfunctional operation.

AA717driver is dead on. The entire management should be cleaned out as an example of what happens when you fail as a leaders.

There have been two very brief periods where these clowns actually walked out and observed the operation they supposably manage. Once after 9/11 and briefly after filing BK last NOV with the threat to the managers jobs. Once they figured out their potted plants weren't getting watered, they disappeared back into their cubbyholes to fire off memos blaming everyone but themselves for each delay.

Last one I saw stood behind the gate podium playing with his smart phone. Not one comment or acknowledgement to the Captain or even passengers asking questions. He did manage to move out of the way of the agent handling passengers and the Captain printing the flightplan (He was flirting with getting told to get the hell out of the way and go back to his petting zoo).
 

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