However, the attitude shown by bagsmasher and some other on the AA side has been nothing short of ignorant and disgusting. They seem to believe that there would have been no cuts at AA had they not bought TWA, and blame the purchase for all their troubles. Most people can clearly see the error in this train of thought, and can see that there are many AA employees who now still have a job precisely because AA bought TWA and a very significant percentage of TWA employees were laid off. The least they can do is argue that the cuts were fair but show some acknowledgement that a TWA employee was laid off to keep them in their job. Taking the job that they wouldn't have had without the purchase and being bitter about it is insulting at best.
When did I EVER say there would be no cuts if AA hadn't bought TWA? That's ridiculous, and I can't believe you have read that into any of my postings. Of course AA would have had to scale back, regardless of the purchase. And yes there are many AAer's with a job today because of the TWA deal. That is the only value I see in this purchase. What I am bitter about is the IAM trying to undo what they gave away to get the deal done. I blame Don Carty for starting this whole mess, the TWU for not protecting it's members, and the IAM for it's part, and Mr. Kasher for working as hard as he could to interpret his way around our contract. The only TWAer's I have a problem with are the ones who think they all should have gone to the top of the seniority lists at AA. And that's exactly where a lot of them would be right now, had they recieved DOH. For example, AA's top Crew Chief in STL had 1969 seniority. Recently there were five openings for Crew Chief at STL. The junior of the five that got awarded the positions had 1966 seniority. At MCI, if TWA had got DOH, 10 of the top 12 FSC's would have been TWA. How that could be fair is beyond me. TWAer's being laid off before AAer's is exactly how I believe it should be done.