American Airlines creditors want to talk merger

[FA Mikey]

I think you should say how will the AA wannabees spin it, while simultaneously denying their dreams.

 

[damajagua]

I think you should say how will the AA wannabees spin it, while simultaneously denying their dreams.

LOL LOL LOL LMAO LMAO!!!!!

 

[eolesen]

Ah, the infamous UCT?...

Given the three actual mergers that have taken place at the big three, it's certainly no longer what I'd consider a "Unique Corporate Transaction" anymore.

Oh, wait. Maybe it is "United Continental Transaction"

I guess it could stand for "Unproven Chip Theory" by now, right?

 

[CactUS4Ever]

I think you should say how will the AA wannabees spin it, while simultaneously denying their dreams.

Hey Mikey i worked for AA in 2001 and resigned in 2002 AA was no bargain for me. I dont know what you see thats so great about it. From the outside looking in I thought AA was a great company to work for. I was actually happy to put on an AA uniform until I found out once on the inside how horrible a company it was. Where should I start. 1. Every sick call i got called in to the office for an attendance hearing, I felt so degraded like a little kid going to the principals office. 2. They bought us a $30 coffee machine with no coffee,cups,milk or sugar and they dont want you getting it from the airplane. So we never got to drink coffee. 3. Our manager did not like us reclining in chairs in OUR breakroom so she raided each breakroom with her cronies and confiscated reclining chairs. 4. I was asked to work overtime many times and I would never see it on my check so I would have to hunt down the supervisor who approved the OT to fix it because no other supervisor wanted to get involved and it would take 2 weeks at times before i see it on my check. 5. I got written up because i didnt have my reflective vest on in the hangar with no planes in it on my break. I called in for a snow day one time because we got 2 feet of snow and the airport was closed for 2 days and when i checked Jetnet for my hours They put me down for Unexcused Absence and it took me 4 weeks to get that removed. I never worked for a company that was abusive to its employees and u think its a dream to work for AA, Get a Life. Delta and Jetblue is more employee friendly and they have no union.

 

[WorldTraveler]

Must we really listen to this back and forth for weeks on end? can we not wait until at least something even remotely close to wet concrete leaks out of some headquarters?... recycling the same rumors for weeks on end w/ no basis in reality seems a bit like grasping for straws, esp. since the chances remain more than even that AA will emerge as a standalone carrier.

 

[etops1]

Must we really listen to this back and forth for weeks on end? can we not wait until at least something even remotely close to wet concrete leaks out of some headquarters?... recycling the same rumors for weeks on end w/ no basis in reality seems a bit like grasping for straws, esp. since the chances remain more than even that AA will emerge as a standalone carrier.

I can agree on that WT

 

[eolesen]

Since you were quoted, I can't pass this up....

Must we really listen to this back and forth for weeks on end?

Perhaps now you can appreciate how people feel about listening to "Delta this" and "Delta that" here in the AA room......

 

[etops1]

Since you were quoted, I can't pass this up....



Perhaps now you can appreciate how people feel about listening to "Delta this" and "Delta that" here in the AA room......

And also the US room ;-)

 

[787nightmare]

Since you were quoted, I can't pass this up....



Perhaps now you can appreciate how people feel about listening to "Delta this" and "Delta that" here in the AA room......

Snicker...

 

[damajagua]

Hey Mikey i worked for AA in 2001 and resigned in 2002 AA was no bargain for me. I dont know what you see thats so great about it. From the outside looking in I thought AA was a great company to work for. I was actually happy to put on an AA uniform until I found out once on the inside how horrible a company it was. Where should I start. 1. Every sick call i got called in to the office for an attendance hearing, I felt so degraded like a little kid going to the principals office. 2. They bought us a $30 coffee machine with no coffee,cups,milk or sugar and they dont want you getting it from the airplane. So we never got to drink coffee. 3. Our manager did not like us reclining in chairs in OUR breakroom so she raided each breakroom with her cronies and confiscated reclining chairs. 4. I was asked to work overtime many times and I would never see it on my check so I would have to hunt down the supervisor who approved the OT to fix it because no other supervisor wanted to get involved and it would take 2 weeks at times before i see it on my check. 5. I got written up because i didnt have my reflective vest on in the hangar with no planes in it on my break. I called in for a snow day one time because we got 2 feet of snow and the airport was closed for 2 days and when i checked Jetnet for my hours They put me down for Unexcused Absence and it took me 4 weeks to get that removed. I never worked for a company that was abusive to its employees and u think its a dream to work for AA, Get a Life. Delta and Jetblue is more employee friendly and they have no union.

You sound like a horrible employee. Going to work to recline in chairs. What a joke. Go ahead go and work
at Delta or JetBlue. I hear that is what they pay their employees for. You can go to work and recline on a
chair the whole day. LOL LOL LMAO!!!!!

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

Cactus,are you sure you're TWA? The TWA guys I work with aren't anywhere near as whiny as you come off in that post.Maybe its a New York thing,I dunno.

 

[WorldTraveler]

Since you were quoted, I can't pass this up....



Perhaps now you can appreciate how people feel about listening to "Delta this" and "Delta that" here in the AA room......

except you seem to miss that the point of talking about DL on the AA threads was as a basis of comparison for what AA COULD be if its assets were properly managed... the fact that DL was much further down the road to death and managed to turn itself around says AA COULD do the same thing, assuming that AA is properly managed (yeah, I know) and that AA's competitors decide they will just nicely sit on the sidelines (fairly tales, anyone?) and no longer show any interest in "seeking" the very decent industry revenues which AA has long had as the backbone of its business model.
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There are real strategic challenges facing AA which I have talked about for years... I have given the revenue comparisons a pause while AA restructures, a process I have repeatedly says that AA deserves to have.
But I can't deny - and neither can anyone else - that AA's future is not in its own control right now and industry forces may overcome the best laid plans that Horton and his highly paid consultants can come up with.
In contrast, we have people who continue to argue that US, one of the financially weakest airlines in the US, will succeed at acquiring a company twice its size and implementing an industry leading turnaround at AA, even though US has been unable to do that with its own assets.
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Other than that, sure, my posts comparing AA and DL and posts about a US acquisition of AA are pretty much the same.

 

[CactUS4Ever]

Cactus,are you sure you're TWA? The TWA guys I work with aren't anywhere near as whiny as you come off in that post.Maybe its a New York thing,I dunno.

R u kidding me. TWA is where I got it from. Old habits don't change. My whining is nothing compared many TWA people. LOL

 

[CactUS4Ever]

You sound like a horrible employee. Going to work to recline in chairs. What a joke. Go ahead go and work
at Delta or JetBlue. I hear that is what they pay their employees for. You can go to work and recline on a
chair the whole day. LOL LOL LMAO!!!!!

Im a horrible employee wanting to be paid the hours I worked hard for and chasing down foreman to make sure they pay me and I'm a horrible employee getting brought in to the principals office because I can't get sick and whats wrong with reclining in a chair on your break time or down time. I thought AA was a company not the US Military. Why can't the company give it's employees something as simple as coffee. You been drinking too much AA juice. Sometimes makes me think what's in that Gatorade they supposedly give you.

 

[Deleted member 14439]

Hey Mikey i worked for AA in 2001 and resigned in 2002 AA was no bargain for me. I dont know what you see thats so great about it. From the outside looking in I thought AA was a great company to work for. I was actually happy to put on an AA uniform until I found out once on the inside how horrible a company it was. Where should I start. 1. Every sick call i got called in to the office for an attendance hearing, I felt so degraded like a little kid going to the principals office. 2. They bought us a $30 coffee machine with no coffee,cups,milk or sugar and they dont want you getting it from the airplane. So we never got to drink coffee. 3. Our manager did not like us reclining in chairs in OUR breakroom so she raided each breakroom with her cronies and confiscated reclining chairs. 4. I was asked to work overtime many times and I would never see it on my check so I would have to hunt down the supervisor who approved the OT to fix it because no other supervisor wanted to get involved and it would take 2 weeks at times before i see it on my check. 5. I got written up because i didnt have my reflective vest on in the hangar with no planes in it on my break. I called in for a snow day one time because we got 2 feet of snow and the airport was closed for 2 days and when i checked Jetnet for my hours They put me down for Unexcused Absence and it took me 4 weeks to get that removed. I never worked for a company that was abusive to its employees and u think its a dream to work for AA, Get a Life. Delta and Jetblue is more employee friendly and they have no union.

1. sk call...thats policy,deal with it.
2. So they provided you with a coffee machine, nice. Now do like the rest of us and start a coffee fund!
3. Reclining in chairs @ work? Besides being stupid its also a safety issue. You fall and bust your noggin` then you will be wanting IOD! All we have/had are benches.
4. A screw up on pay/hours happens. In 22 years Ive never NOT had it made right. I`m guessing you are stretching a bit on that one.
5. You sure it was for the vest and not for reclining in the break room?
Cactus you sound like the cartoon character for whiners. I certainly am glad the TWA guys on my crew are not cut from the same cloth as yourself. Enjoy your time at US, you would never make it on my crew.