Yepper on to new horizons! I am a fourteen year employee of Airlines starting with AWA, then the merger of USAirways and now to American. I am looking forward to this merger with a great deal of hope and excitement. I am in IT, and I have seen firsthand what the Pilots/FA’s/Mechanics/Rampers/Ops and basically everyone from the top to the bottom deal with on an IT level. I hope that AA has a better attitude that those of the legacy US. I have never dealt with such a group of individuals that have such an entitlement, “you owe me attitude” than I have with that group of people. I recall meeting people right after that announcement years ago and the first thing I was told was how long they had been employed and what the company owes them and how they got screwed. I often wondered, “Why did you stay”? I still haven’t figured that out. AWA replaced the computers in legacy US and we tried to donate them (the old ones)… nobody would take them because they were so out of date, and we never got a thank you.
I have read this board for a good many years was more of a lurker than a contributor, only been a member for a short while, but something here got me going. Ya know when you have someone that has over 11,000 posts on a single board flames someone for asking a simple question that is just wrong. I guess the entitlement that is legacy US is in AA too, that is a shame, I would expect more from this quality airline. Right now my paycheck says USAirways, in time it will say AA and when the announcement comes about the merger, I will be proud to wear the AA badge, much more than USAirways. I work for a living, I figure that I put in a good days work for USAirways, and at the end of the day USAirways gives me a good days pay. We were even. I have helped every single group that I listed above, made sure that Pilots/Mechanics had the best computer systems that we could supply, often at the risk of my own job, why, because they needed it to do theirs.
I live in the world of reality, no grey; it’s either black or white right or wrong. I know that this is going to be a hard pill for long time AA people to swallow, I accept that, and am sympathetic to it. AA is a proud airline and there is no wing clipping here, and I am really glad to be a part of it. I just ask one favor…give us a chance. I am not a chief, just a worker bee, but a damn good one and I do care. So Mr. 11,000 posts on a forum, unless you have done what I have done, be fair, and most important be honest.
