Just so I get it straight: you criticize APFA for not negotiating a more generous contract, and yet criticize AA management for increasing their labor costs. Got it.
I think you just proved that you will never be satisfied with anything AA does, no matter what.
no.
there is a big difference between negotiating a more generous agreement and increasing costs.
it is up to mgmt. to figure out to pay people more while not increasing costs above the level of increased revenues
Look at all of your post then look in a mirror!!! I have no idea how you can get up there every Sunday an Preach after how you conduct yourself on this forum!!! And that is the very reason NO ONE believes your truths, to call us afraid laughable and makes you a fool!!!
you don't believe the facts because they highlight that AA pulled a fast one on APFA by getting rid of profit sharing, that AA's revenue generation is not near as robust as you think it is and what the industry is doing, and that other industry employees chose to do the right thing by having profit sharing.
Exactly. It's not about discussing facts and ideas (as he constantly tries to sell), it's about a nonstop narrative that boils down to this: American Airlines sucks, since it's not Delta Air Lines.
He cloaks that juvenile nonsense in multi-thousand word deflections, but it's essentially childish taunts of "your airline sucks and mine doesn't."
for someone who understands the numbers that are presented and even acknowledged that DL's gross profits and gross profit margin were better than AA's, your post is nothing but a childish tantrum based on realities that you really don't want to admit even though you know they are true.
He's in a bad mood lately. AA is now outperforming DL, far quicker than most people ever thought, and he really just can't take it. He's going mad.
except that it is not.
DL's gross operating margin was once again higher than the rest of the legacy carriers.
AA outperformed on net profit because it did not account for taxes or provide profit sharing.
The people who are clearly in very bad moods are those who can't accept that AA is once again seeking - just like it did under Parker - by keeping AA employee compensation below that of other airline employees.
AA's unions made a huge strategic mistake in being talked out of profit sharing at a time when the industry is performing at its best in decades.
