Sorry, but that's logic that some unionistas don't seem to grasp...
I paid out quite a bit to AA and other one world carriers this year. Frankly, if I think there's a chance of AA giving me a summer from hell, I'll suck it up and fly Delta for a year or two.
Unionistas? Try calling us by what we are..working Americans trying to better our lives. Just like I'm sure you try to do at your place of employment. BTW...I don't think there is loyalty to an airline...only loyalty to an awards program.
jersey777, I see from yours and another post that Eric seems to have hit a nerve using the term "unionistas". And also, BTW, some of us were specific airline loyalists
long before there were FF award programs.
In the pre-reg days, I was loyal to EA and UA domestic and to TWA and EAL international (and bought a Lifetime Membership in all three Clubs). I switched domestic flying to AA because of both the service, the fleet (I actually
like the MDs) and the route structure. AA picked up the international with the purchase of the TWA Europe and EAL SA routes. When AA finally 'took over' TWA, the 200K miles in its program put me over the 2MM AAdvantage miles mark to AA Life Platinum.
But if the union-driven UA "summer from hell' were replicated at AA, my AA status would not stop me from joining Eric, and I know of many others, in switching to OA. I do it now when the route, schedule and price are all in line.
Sure, there are FF mile-addict loyalists who do convoluted routings and make 'Mileage Runs' to accumulate mileage and maintain status; but they are not the paid front cabin and last-minute full-fare-coach pax that are the difference between a full flight and a profitable flight. As a hard..."working American" [Airline employee] (as I am sure you are), you should know and understand, that these are the pax that AA must have to again become and remain profitable.
I'm not anti-union. In my lifetime I've held three union cards: as a musician, stage-hand and taxi driver. In each case, I had to join in order to work (leisure, temp and part-time); and I'm sure I benefited from what these unions had previously done as to pay and working conditions. Had I chosen an to be an AMT, I would have been a loyal unionist[a].
However I chose to pursue an education and career that made me want, and paid off in, the antithesis of unionism: Merit basis for pay and promotion. But I ultimately lost a [non-seniority protected] job - and that led me to be the founder and majority owner of a $5M firm employing another 40 hard working Americans (and green-card immigrants) 'trying to better their lives'.
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