Miami Fleet

[jcw]

the issue is no one can figure out that it works in CLT so it can't possibly work in MIA

 

[boston]

jcw, no one said what works in CLT cant work at other HUBs. I do know for a fact that things got a lot better in MIA when they went to a rolling HUB. You may be based at MIA , I don't know if not most will tell you MIA is a different animal. If your not based at CLT you may want to come down here for a bit and check it out, see how it works. Most flights are international and turned very quickly. This isn't just about shifts for fleet, shoving more international flights than CLT/PHL/PHX at once into customs at once. However PHX says it will work, more power to them. For the Federal gov is in charge in that dept. AA before us offered  to pay the overtime  to Customs/Immigration agents and the answer was now. The mis-conx and pax put in hotels was staggering. Anyway lots of new flight attendants and Fleet service showing up daily in Miami, come join the fun.

 

[jcw]

AA has one of the COO's in the industry and I'm sure they have planned this out and simulated the operation - people are starting with from the position of change won't work - you don't know until you try it

 

[FWAAA]

the issue is no one can figure out that it works in CLT so it can't possibly work in MIA

US, with Charlotte and Philly,  has the lowest average fares (yields) across the Atlantic of any airline since at least 1995, substantially lower than AA's yields.   Same story with Latin America, where AA's 2013 Latin America yield was just shy of 18 cents per mile, while US managed to attract about 15 cents per mile.
 
Domestic mainline yields at US were a tiny fraction higher in 2013 than AA's domestic mainline yields.    
 
So along comes "AA filed for bankruptcy because everything former management did was wrong" Doug Parker and Scott Kirby and they announce that AA will re-bank the hubs, since that's how you attract higher average fares.   
 
Funny how banked hubs at US have not attracted higher average fares across the Atlantic or to Latin America and yet re-banking ORD, MIA and DFW will magically create higher yields for new AA.   It's a near-certainty that the higher costs to re-bank ORD, MIA and DFW will more than eat up any extra revenue (assuming that it produces any extra revenue).  
 
Your CEO is a drunken dumbass who simply makes things up and amazingly, some employees bow down and worship the ground he walks on without questioning his nonsense blather.
 

jcw, no one said what works in CLT cant work at other HUBs. I do know for a fact that things got a lot better in MIA when they went to a rolling HUB. You may be based at MIA , I don't know if not most will tell you MIA is a different animal. If your not based at CLT you may want to come down here for a bit and check it out, see how it works. Most flights are international and turned very quickly. This isn't just about shifts for fleet, shoving more international flights than CLT/PHL/PHX at once into customs at once. However PHX says it will work, more power to them. For the Federal gov is in charge in that dept. AA before us offered  to pay the overtime  to Customs/Immigration agents and the answer was now. The mis-conx and pax put in hotels was staggering. Anyway lots of new flight attendants and Fleet service showing up daily in Miami, come join the fun.

AA's performance increased dramatically when the rolling hubs (relaxed banking) were introduced at MIA, ORD and DFW.  On top of that, it had to reduce the labor costs since there were fewer high-volume busy peaks followed by no-work valleys where large number of agents and fleet service clerks sat around waiting for the next bank.   Heavily banked hubs are necessarily over-staffed, and rolling hubs allow for some greater efficiency.   Of course, management at old AA sometimes reached for too much efficiency, like the single gate agent mainline departures (instead of a more reasonable two or three).   
 

AA has one of the COO's in the industry and I'm sure they have planned this out and simulated the operation - people are starting with from the position of change won't work - you don't know until you try it

AA has "one of the COO's in the industry"?   That's saying quite a lot.    Every airline has one of the COOs in the industry.   

 

[boston]

Maybe this is a good thing, banked hubs, for now the rolling hub Fleet goes to gate to gate while theirs isn't occupied, every once of sweat is extracted from these guys. This way they can stroll the 1.4mile or so concourse while having a cafecito and taking in the Miami colorful energy. Time will allow them to get in a work out or two at 2 of the gyms provided for them, or socializing with everyone from every county you could think of.
 
However, if one wants to make the French drink Hawaiian punch in the land of Perrier, give it a try, MIA Fleet service needs a breather.

 

[jcw]

AA has one of the COO's in the industry and I'm sure they have planned this out and simulated the operation - people are starting with from the position of change won't work - you don't know until you try it

my bad - it should have said "AA has one of the best COO's in the industry"

 

[737823]

AA has one of the COO's in the industry and I'm sure they have planned this out and simulated the operation - people are starting with from the position of change won't work - you don't know until you try it

Virasb Vahidi was much better than these clowns now, his departure was a true loss to AA. Very nice and smart guy, had the opportunity to meet him a few years back he was very well respected throughout the company.

Josh

 

[700UW]

Robert Isom is very good at operations and what he does, US has had great on-time performance with him at the helm.

 

[jcw]

Virasb Vahidi was much better than these clowns now, his departure was a true loss to AA. Very nice and smart guy, had the opportunity to meet him a few years back he was very well respected throughout the company.

Josh

Let's see years of beating AA at on time performance is lost on you again - sorry about the facts getting into the ways of you bashing US - Lost baggage improvement 70% - better than AA as well - facts, facts, facts - always get in the way
 
Everyone knows US is not perfect - just like AA is not perfect - I have had a large number of cancelations on AA since the merger - I"m not on here complaining about every cancelation and AA's inability to swap aircraft instead of cancelations - things happen in operations and move on - or the time AA changed my flights because they canceled one leg - they re-issued the tickets wrong and all 5 legs after the first leg involved almost 20 mins check in time in every country because the tickets had duplicate ticket numbers and I had to work hard to get their One World partners to understand what happened - however I'm not on here bashing AA's incompetence - or the lost bag that took them 5 days to get to me in China - AA is not perfect, nor DL, nor US
 
As US moves more and more metal into MIA you should switch to DL or UA so you can be happier

 

[robbedagain]

one of the best posts ive seen in a while jcw     not one airline is perfect  they all have their strengths n weakness