A New Year

[operaations]

My thanks go out to the many employees that came to work during the holidays and worked extra hard to compensate for those individuals that decided not to show for work. Our passengers are very thankful and we all did our very best despite those who try to ruin this company.

 

[local 12 proud]

My thanks go out to the many employees that came to work during the holidays and worked extra hard to compensate for those individuals that decided not to show for work. Our passengers are very thankful and we all did our very best despite those who try to ruin this company.

[post="235434"][/post]​

Did it ever occur to you that sometimes people really do get Ill, I mean after all this is the hieght of the Flu season. Just because someone fails to show up for work means they are trying to ruin this company as you put it? Very noble of you to come on here and Pat yourself on the back <_<

 

[IORFA]

According to Laurie Curtis, we F/A's did a good job this year during the holidays. And to top it off, we had LESS sick calls this year than years past. What do you think Operations? Are we still a bunch of A$$'s to you? She also said that there was not 1 single cancellation, because of manning issues throughout the holidays.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

My thanks go out to the many employees that came to work during the holidays and worked extra hard to compensate for those individuals that decided not to show for work. Our passengers are very thankful and we all did our very best despite those who try to ruin this company.

[post="235434"][/post]​

And those of us who worked the holidays are a bit resentful toward all the employees who got a FOUR DAY WEEKEND while we worked outside in the crappy weather.

Once again, "leading by example" and "shared sacrifice", to quote Chairman Arpey.

 

[mjk]

Operaations does tend to be a little more direct than some of you would like. Perhaps he should have said something like this...

While a couple of U.S. carriers made news headlines over the holiday period that just ended with severe operational difficulties, American Airlines experienced a smooth operation through the Christmas and New Year’s holidays despite the challenges posed by winter weather and heavy traffic. That smooth operation was due in no small measure to your usual outstanding professionalism. I want to thank you for a job well done, and I know our customers appreciate it, too. Being able to depend on American Airlines to get to an important destination, whether for business or pleasure, is a critical component in our airline’s continuing ability to attract and retain loyal customers. I would venture that travelers remember well which airlines deliver them to their destination as promised.

-Ralph Hunter, APA President, 3JAN05

While I'm not by any means an APA cheerleader, I agree with his statement.

We (regardless of our union/non-union status) should all be proud of helping our passengers get to their destinations during the holidays.

The more that the USAir's and United's of the world screw up, the better we look.

 

[AAStew]

Do you think Operaations worked during the holidays? He sure did post alot during that time! Not to pat myself on the back, but I went to work with a sprained ankle and bruised arm from a turbulance injury. I know quite a few other f/a's who stuck it out also. This while my supervisor took off from the 22nd to the 27th! Her ass should of been out on the line....but oh I forgot she has only flown a fam trip and had no Godly idea what she is doing on or off the airplane. Oh well...

 

[Bob Owens]

Operaations does tend to be a little more direct than some of you would like. Perhaps he should have said something like this...
While I'm not by any means an APA cheerleader, I agree with his statement.

We (regardless of our union/non-union status) should all be proud of helping our passengers get to their destinations during the holidays.

The more that the USAir's and United's of the world screw up, the better we look.

[post="235613"][/post]​

Too bad its a lie.

Things were, and still are a mess at JFK.

 

[Mach85ER]

operations,

If the managers of AA had not sukked so bad for the last two decades, working together as a motivated team in difficult times would be an afterthought, and AA would have to turn down offers of help from the employees during the holidays.

My thanks go out to the many employees that came to work during the holidays and worked extra hard to compensate for those individuals that decided not to show for work. Our passengers are very thankful and we all did our very best despite those who try to ruin this company.

For 15 years I've watched detached managers ruin this company day in and out all year round. No hacked off employee could ever keep up AA's managers if the decided to carry on their own job action.

By the way, if someone would like some interesting homework, in early 2003, AA sold it's fuel hedges that were good through spring of 2004, for $41 million. At the same time, management "featherbedded" their retirement for exactly $41 million, leaving AA vulnerable to oil hikes. The retirement was to "keep the talent" although half have since left. I'll stand corrected if proven wrong, but if this is true, it would be a classic example of what I am talking about.

 

[Wretched Wrench]

............... in early 2003, AA sold it's fuel hedges that were good through spring of 2004, for $41 million. At the same time, management "featherbedded" their retirement for exactly $41 million, leaving AA vulnerable to oil hikes. The retirement was to "keep the talent" although half have since left.

Yup. Again, to quote Chairman Arpey, "Shared Sacrifice" and "Leading by Example."

How do they expect us to take them seriously when they keep doing stuff like this. When we all are REALLY in the same boat, we will all pull harder on the oars. Lots of folks feel a little fatalistic, and believe we are doomed. That negative thinking can only be corrected by positive actions from management. So far, only talk.

As with the pigs in Orwell's Animal Farm, "We are all equal, but some of us are more equal."

 

[goingboeing]

And those of us who worked the holidays are a bit resentful toward all the employees who got a FOUR DAY WEEKEND while we worked outside in the crappy weather.

Once again, "leading by example" and "shared sacrifice", to quote Chairman Arpey.

[post="235492"][/post]​

Just to make you feel better we mechanics at TUL had 11 days off from Christmas to New Years.[AA contractual shutdown] It was really nice to be at home during these Holidays.

 

[Oneflyer]

And those of us who worked the holidays are a bit resentful toward all the employees who got a FOUR DAY WEEKEND while we worked outside in the crappy weather.

This is a pretty stupid comment. AA wouldn't exactly be very successful recruiting management talent if they said you had to work all the holidays because some mechanic somewhere might get pissed if we didn't. Get over it, working holidays is part of your job discription, you signed up for when you took the job and joined the union and its senority based system.

 

[seed]

Stupid is a bit rough.

 

[flydcoop]

operations,

If the managers of AA had not sukked so bad for the last two decades, working together as a motivated team in difficult times would be an afterthought, and AA would have to turn down offers of help from the employees during the holidays.
For 15 years I've watched detached managers ruin this company day in and out all year round. No hacked off employee could ever keep up AA's managers if the decided to carry on their own job action.


I think this calls out all front-line managers.

I know I had to personally burn a day-off (yes, I held New Year's and subsequent days off, I bid a turn line) so I could get my MIA parking sticker, only to find that parking stickers weren't available over the the "holiday".

Whoa, I work at an airline, and I can't get a parking sticker over the weekend...even from the MOD (forget the FYI people. you can't trust them to delegate?)

I needed to be at my base earlier but had to stay to take care of this drama?

All I missed out on was washing towels at my crashpad, will I forget this? NO! That was what I was coming back early to do.

I also took a jumpseat along with another commuting flight attendant, in order to accommodate D3's.

There was a FDJ who was very adamant about the fact he "listed for first". He got it, as well as the fact I will remember him due to an entire family was pulled from the plane because of him.

Do you really think I want to sit on an ironing board that much?

Really, I knew this crew. The FDJ would have been treated much better in the cockpit.

So, next time you think that full litre of water bottle is yours, look at that paperwork.

You never had designated bottles of water before.

Look at what AA has given you.

.5 cockpit water,

pay attention,

Coop

 

[Wretched Wrench]

There was a FDJ who was very adamant about the fact he "listed for first". He got it, as well as the fact I will remember him due to an entire family was pulled from the plane because of him.


Coop

May I ask what is a FDJ?

Thanks

 

[AirLUVer]

May I ask what is a FDJ?

Thanks

[post="236276"][/post]​

on the Priority list, if you look all the way to the right of the screen where the comments are , FDJ is a Flight Deck Jumpseat qualified person, a CJ would be a Cabin Jumpseat qualified person. So on full flights those can get accommodated in a jumpseat. There was a big huff a few years ago, when the pilots wanted to have access to cabin (FA) jump seats as well as the cockpit jumpseat.