TWA had some of the finest employees I have ever met. Let's not let nostalgia blind us to the truth. Wether it was due to poor management, fierce competition, Carl Ichan, or whatever you want to blame it on TWA ran out of rabbits. They had been pulling rabbits out of their hat for years just to survive. The employees got the royal shaft from AA no doubt.
At JetBlue there are MANY MANY MANY former employees of TWA. At least half the pilot group are furloughed from one airline or another. Almost every single mechanic I have talked to is furloughed from some airline. So please spare us the "to remind JB and the new lower paid airline workers" mantra. So many outsiders seem to think we all fell off the apple cart yesterday and don't have any experience in this business. Well you are sorely mistaken if that's what you believe.
