iorfa,
Dude, or dudette..
She's legacy AA
Not living in the past, just has some morals...
And doesn't like being lied to, or seeing people screwed "just because we can"
The pervasiveness of the " we saved/bought TWA on its deathbed/in BK/at the firesale is just the first lie perpetrated by AA's unions, especially APFA.
Not to mention the calling TW pilots and FA's scabs, and unqualified, unfit to work,at the Nordstrom airline, etc., etc.,
Yes, that came directly from the unions, especially in SkyWord, and especially from Ward.
The BK was a requirement of the asset purchase agreement, which was negotiated, accepted by both airline's Board of Directors, and signed before the BK was filed.
Any "what would have happened" absent that agreement is pure speculation, and while arguments can be made either way, TW was not filing BK in JAN 2001 absent the requirement to do so contained in AA's cherry deal.
85er,
What portion of AA's pre 9-11 network is gone?
(Somewhere around 30% of the pilot jobs, and pretty near that for F/A's.... TWA would have accounted for approx 15% of the combined pre 9-11 total...)
Should the former TWA career F/A's and pilots have been forced into the position of providing furlough protection for AA new-hires, who would certainly have been furloughed during the inevitable post 9-11 shrinkage and consolidation?
They were.
Captains furloughed before 4/9/01 hires, and 30 year F/A's to protect AA 2001 hires.
Yes, you shall be known by your words and your deeds, all the days of your lives.