American Airlines will build new four-building HQ complex in Fort Worth

[Hatu]

American Airlines will build a new headquarters and create a corporate campus in Fort Worth at a site just west of its current location near Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the company said in a letter to employees Thursday.

American (Nasdaq: AAL) plans to demolish the old Sabre Holdings headquarters and acquire 97 acres next to 200 acres that it already owns. The airline will build four buildings that will house the management team and corporate and staff functions. The new campus will house about 5,000 employees.

http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2015/10/22/american-airlines-will-build-new-four-building-hq.html?ana=yahoo

 

[Deleted member 14439]

Good News

 

[AA-MRO.COM]

Money to burn.
How about fixing the hanger doors in bay 10 and bay 9 that never work. (JFK) why not
dump some money into that 80 year old hanger at LGA. That building in Dallas built in the 80s must really be in bad shape....

 

[1AA]

Money to burn.
How about fixing the hanger doors in bay 10 and bay 9 that never work. (JFK) why not
dump some money into that 80 year old hanger at LGA. That building in Dallas built in the 80s must really be in bad shape....

Money to burn.
How about fixing the hanger doors in bay 10 and bay 9 that never work. (JFK) why not
dump some money into that 80 year old hanger at LGA. That building in Dallas built in the 80s must really be in bad shape....

You have your priorities mixed up. BTW if they fix the hangars then we pay for it in more concessions.

 

[eolesen]

I find it a bit ironic that AA's HDQ is moving back to the same site their second HDQ in DFW was built on...

When AA first moved to Fort Worth, they were in Grand Prairie, and built the complex south of the Learning Center and FAA TRACON a few years later.

After Centerport was built, they left Trinity in 1992, and Sabre moved in, keeping it after the spinoff. EDS later bought it from Sabre, and then after HP bought EDS, I'm guessing they dropped the lease and moved out.

Now it's back to the Trinity Site for AA.

The original design only had open air parking, and neither Sabre or EDS did anything about that after they took over.

No garage. In Texas. Home of grapefruit size hail and blazing sun...

Being cheap, I'm sure Parker will do the same. Why build a garage when there's a perfectly good parking lot already there?...

 

[Deleted member 14439]

No garage? They don`t need no stinkin` garage! Seriously, the rest of us AA employees do not have covered parking. Why should the folks at HQ?

 

[Buck]

No garage? They don`t need no stinkin` garage! Seriously, the rest of us AA employees do not have covered parking. Why should the folks at HQ?

Because we are not all equal?

 

[UPNAWAY]

Actually Parker said it will have a parking garage and joked maybe the biggest in the world.....Speaking to the hsitory of the site Elise Eberwin relayed a story that Crandell used to throw a chair form the balcony off his office into the pond below when upset. She commented how cool would it be to commemorate that with a chair statute in a pond....

 

[eolesen]

This is the first time I'm hearing about the chair off the balcony. Not saying it didn't happen, but it sounds too much like the long debunked urban legend about him throwing a chair thru the window of his sixth floor office when the flight attendants walked out in 1993.

Crandall had a nasty temper, but if he actually picked up anything and threw it in anger, it wasn't bigger than a file folders or presentation binder. Besides, I was working there at the time. We would have noticed that.

 

[FWAAA]

$350 million for a new management palace:

American Airlines will spend $350 million on its headquarters campus in Fort Worth with the help of $21.25 million in tax incentives, according to economic development incentive proposals from that city.

http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/american-will-spend-350-million-on-new-headquarters-seeks-21-25-million-in-tax-incentives.html/

Apparently, new management has money to burn.

Hatchet-Man Hector cheaps out the AA meals to save a few million dollars when meals were added to the food-less US flights, yields and unit revenues are sinking faster at AA than any of the competitors, and yet they can blow $350 million on a brand new HQ. Wow.

 

[Rogallo]

Not to worry. A second BK will take care of all the new debt!

 

[ATD]

filing coming in 2018...

 

[Buck]

filing coming in 2018...

Wait just one minute, how did you know that this second BK was coming at the same time of the mechanic's JCBA?

 

[Hackman]

$350 million for a new management palace:


http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/american-will-spend-350-million-on-new-headquarters-seeks-21-25-million-in-tax-incentives.html/

Apparently, new management has money to burn.

Hatchet-Man Hector cheaps out the AA meals to save a few million dollars when meals were added to the food-less US flights, yields and unit revenues are sinking faster at AA than any of the competitors, and yet they can blow $350 million on a brand new HQ. Wow.

Management has always treated themselves very well, regardless of how well the company is doing or isn't. Bankruptcy is the answer and the business plan. DUI Doug and his band of USukAir/America Worst misfits have to spend all that cash they are rolling in somewhere, they sure as hell couldn't let the employees share in it. USukAir had TWO bankruptcies in 2 years, so they are well versed in the scam.
 
Doug knows how to run an airline into the ground, as we on the front lines are seeing daily. Cut everything to the bone, except management pay and perks.  When the economy takes the next DUMP, it's bankruptcy 3 for the Dougster.
 
Maybe he will dress up as Ozzy Osbourne next. I'm thinking a drunkard version of  "Crazy Train" for the next stupid video they can put out.
 
At least the pilots are happy....they wanted these clowns.

 

[700UW]

Doug had nothing to do with US filing bankruptcy twice, he wasnt part of US until after the second chapter 11.