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If you want to undo stuff, I would like to undo the whole purchase of TWA. That way you would have nothing else to complain about on here. You can have all the S-80's back at their higher lease rates and you can get STL back as well. Don't forget you also get Icahn and Caribu as well. Good luck with your life, it seems that you are a very sad person who continues to dwell on the past and can't move on. That is only going to continue to cause you heartache.
Oh, please...give us back our airline. Then we won't have to ever, ever hear the phrase: "our industry leading contract" again. Going back to Icahn, Caribu and funky old MD-80's (see, now they're back to "our name" for them) would be a treat rather than having to deal with "we're AA, and we always have done it this way" employees. "We're AA and you are soooooo lucky to be here, you poor little peasant TWA people". "We're AA, and while we know you don't like being at the bottom of the heap, why we're so attached to our position of right that we haven't had time to really think about the morality of our behavior and we don't care anyway. Might makes right with us, you know....so we'll just turn our noses up and dismiss you." " We're AA, and though we know you were promised certain things during all those tedious old hearings in front of the government, particularly fair-and-equitable, and oh by the way, STL being yours to keep, why it's just not convenient for us to do that now so you just run along, take your little furlough and leave....you're so tiresome when you keep nagging at us and it just makes us more tired".
Give us back the company we fought for, and struggled for and, please note, won awards from JD Powers for. We'll let you have your downward slide which you've started - it's familiar to us,....been there and done that. We don't want to do it all over again.The difference being is that when ours started, we soon became an employee-owned company and we all pushed and pulled and struggled together and worked as a team . Unfortunately, AA is standing knee deep in water and the employees still think they're in the top branches of the $ tree. I'll lay my last dollar in my little savings account that the AA employees will be standing around with large, surprised looks on their faces by the time the negotiations have finished.....there's not going to be any big pay raise, folks, so in actuality you are going to be where WE were. Surprised?
We'll take back our Company so that, once again, the pax lined up in the jetway will see someone who, at least periodically, pops up from his or her head in a cart, and says "Hi...welcome!". What a contrast to all those paying people who file on with no greeting, no welcome, no nothing. We'll take back our Company so that we can once again do a REQUIRED 20 minute walkthrough in the cabin, rather than half-heartedly doing the service and then retiring to the last row not to be seen again.
We'll take back our Company so that we can operate in an atmosphere that doesn't encourage snitching by having a special phone number to use to report our fellow employees. And last, we'll take back our Company so that we don't have to deal with the arrogance of employees that make posts that neglect to acknowledge the fact that those old, shabby (and some new and quite nice) "Super 80's" were not the only things that AA benefitted by. The AA workforce has benefitted greatly from the additon of the TWA folk - first and foremost because we've been used as a furlough cushion. And that, my friends, will come to an end. Mark your diaries.....it WILL come to an end.
