APA Pilots Reject TA

[Bringupthebird]

I think you are correct. AA does need an East coast presence. The problem is AA does not need PHX especially if they have LAX and DFW. PHL would be a good fit.

PHL's a goner. Ever heard of JFK?

 

[Bringupthebird]

What the proposed merger bring to the AA pilots then, is this:

1) It gives them a chance to kick Horton to the curb. Very satisfying.
2) It gives them a better contract than they are likely to receive from AA anytime soon.

I would hesitate to vote on emotion. History has proven how foolish that is. Parker will never throw money at pilots. Never has never will. He can get an injunction by pressing the EASY button. A workforce that is so close to the edge economically can ill afford any strike, something he is quite aware of.

A future AA under Parker will be very much like an overgrown US which is an overgrown and less efficient AWA. He has never full exploited the potential that having the lowest labor rates in the industry has provided him. He somehow transforms airlines into ones that require below-market payrates just to survive.

In other words, make your decisions, not because of Parker, but despite him.

 

[Turtle21]

I think you are correct. AA does need an East coast presence. The problem is AA does not need PHX especially if they have LAX and DFW. PHL would be a good fit.

Correct PHL makes money on its own and has been growing. PHX is a looser and the planes based in PHX start and end there 4-day trips at PHX but fly in and out of PHL and CLT all 4 days of the trip.

 

[Bringupthebird]

PHL is too small, too ATC restricted and does not have sufficient OneWorld connectivity. Better eat your cheesesteaks while you can.

CLT would be redundant with MIA offering better SA access.

I guess it's all a matter of where the returning nAAtive furloughees wish to go anyhow. Attrition was a nice dream, wasn't it?

 

[Turtle21]

PHL is too small, too ATC restricted and does not have sufficient OneWorld connectivity. Better eat your cheesesteaks while you can.

CLT would be redundant with MIA offering better SA access.

I guess it's all a matter of where the returning nAAtive furloughees wish to go anyhow. Attrition was a nice dream, wasn't it?

Don't you have some Marines to go beat up? :lol: You are just a flame baiter.. Probably still on furlough!

 

[Bringupthebird]

Probably still on furlough!

Nope, I was there over 25 years ago. But since you seem to have such disdain for those on furlough, perhaps you think they shouldn't have had a vote on ousting ALPA. So you like them when you can use them to get your way?

No, the APA will be crafting any and all TA's you'll ever vote on. Hummel can re-quote the Shake and Bake girl, "And I Helped!" (but we all know better).