Birthing of "Keep AA my AA"
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I'm waiting for the pay per view of Tommy H being given a box and 5 minutes to fill it up while a very large security guard keeps watch. When the bell rings, the walk of shame begins. With all the employees clapping as the sad sack is marched off property. What a line of losers we have had at AA. Bring on America West. At least the top will be cleaned out of the do nothing's and excuse makers!
I appreciate your opinion, but you left. This place is a sad waste in need of change. Any change! Tommy H has zero chance of getting the rank and file to fall in line behind him.
Keep AA my AA? Sounds like a repeat of the Delta take over. For one I believe it's too late. For 2 you have 3 of the biggest unions on board with it. Too little too late to try and keep AA stand alone. Not saying it will def be US just saying I don't see them as stand alone.
Doesn't sway me. More of the same old BS. Time to get rid of most, if not all, of them! Like I said before. Tommy H is never going to get the rank and file front line workers to get behind him, unless, it is to push him right out of here.
Arpey is gone...
Brundage is gone....
Burdette is gone......
"Barbeque" Bob Reding is gone.....
Mark Hetterman is gone.....
Monte Ford is gone...
A surprising number of guys on our union board are speaking out with strong reservations about APA's leaders chasing Parker so passionately...
Perhaps a waste of time, but the Flyertalk thread linked in the OP was begun by a frequent flyer, not HDQ. UAfan is a long-time member of Flyertalk who defected to AA early this year when AA offered status-matches to top tier UA elites, matching them to Executive Platinum, handing them eight SWUs and telling them that if they flew 55k in 2012, they'd requalify for EXP for 2013.
Yes, many front-line employees despise Tom Horton. Not unsurprising given his role as the CEO when AA filed for Ch 11 and demanded massive work-rule changes from most of you and was not willing to give the "restore and more" raises that so many of you thought were just around the next corner.
Nevertheless, AA has improved its yield and unit revenue subtantially more in the first nine months of 2012 than has UA or US, both of which have lagged DL and AA in revenue improvements. When emotions are set aside, AA's revenue performance in the first three quarters of 2012 has been better than anyone expected and is better (relative to the rest of the industry) than AA has performed in several years. UA stumbled big on March 3 with its ill-timed computer conversion to Shares and has yet to fully recover. AA has been able to raise prices and fill more seats more effectively than has Smisek (UA) or Parker (US).
The creditors committee won't be swayed by sentimental pleas like the "Keep AA My AA" online bulletin board campaigns and similarly, the creditors committee won't give a damn that some employees have demonized Tom Horton. It's all about the numbers, and with claims totalling about 21% of the new company, employees don't have the numbers to influence the outcome any more than the impassioned frequent flyers.
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to be accurate, AA and UA both had negative RASM growth in the most recent month. US was flat and you know who had positive RASM.
AA had a sixth month run at strong RASM growth that lasted until the operational problems and hasn't rebounded since.
Latin America had the biggest load factor decline of any of AA's regions in the most recent month indicating that the market is not absorbing AA's brisk rate of capacity growth.
AA has done a very good job of retaining revenue in BK but they are putting capacity back in that the market is not absorbing and thus their RASM is declining - which was exactly what happened before BK.
Their run of RASM increases also came w/ reduction of capacity after several years.
