The Truth about what AA did to TWA F/A's

[ultrarunner]

If I recall, AA essentially came in and bought TWA at the 11th hour. Is there anyone here that thinks TWA would not have been liquidated had this not occured?

There are like many more TWA folks with jobs right now because of their company being aquired by AA.

Think about that.

 

[AAslag]

Runner,

I've been thinking about it a lot. Especially the part where I had 15+ years seniority before my furlough; 2 years, 6 months and 18 days ago.

I wish I could forget about it.

 

[AAslag]

There are like many more TWA folks with jobs right now because of their company being aquired by AA.

Think about that.[/quote]

And there are like many more TWA folks without jobs right now because of their company being aquired by the company named after the country I served.

 

[Rik717pilot]

Ultrarunner:

AA came and "bought" TWA because UAL was in the process of buying USAir and AMR didn't want UAL to get too big or at least bigger than AA, you know, the Johnson size factor. TWA was a deal. It was after all the news and commitments were made that AMR had TWA go into a Chap. 11 to get rid of Carl Ichan and his Karabu ticket deal. Once that happened, AMR came and levered our scope protections away from us by telling the MEC that AMR would walk away if TWA/ALPA/MEC didn't sign the scope deal that AMR wanted. ALPA didn't do squat to help the TWA pilots and was even helping APA do the Screw job. Very much the shot gun wedding! As to more TWA people having jobs.. well, if TWA had just died, we would have more people better placed in more jobs due to early scrambling prior to 9-11. Your direction is the normal brain washed "be happy you have a job" attitude of the sky nazis.

 

[glasspilot1]

Your direction is the normal brain washed "be happy you have a job" attitude of the sky nazis.

AA'ers have to assume TWA would have disappeared to justify their treatment of us. The fact is we were starting a code share with AWA and the strong possability of an eventual merger. We were expanding in the Caribbean and stepping on AA's toes. So AA does what it always does; buys the competition and squashes them. Just ask Reno and Air Cal. I fly with a lot of ex-Reno guys in STL, they say all Reno planes were parked and Reno routes are no longer served. Why did AA buy them? Just to get rid of them.

9-11? Remember the cash the government was handing out? TWA would have been first in line. 2 years later we would have been rid of the Ichan ticket "agreement". With our lower cost structure we may have been off to the races (like Continental?). Then AA comes in with it's promises in front of Congress, then steps off the podium and says "Senoirity? That's a union thing". "Fair and Equitable"? Did I say that?"