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On 8/3/2003 9:35:37 AM MiAAmi wrote:
As I am not a former employee of TWA. I don't naturally find hints of conspiracy in everything that is announced. I will agree that if there are ways of reducing our dues and shutting down the BB on the site is one of them then go for it. I get all the gossip I need on the aircraft.
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Well, I'm a nAAtive, and I find it curious that a lot of the so-called "rumors" that were posted proved to be true when the company and the AApfa finally decided to announce some event or circumstance that the media and the "rumor mill" had been saying for weeks.
I posted something straight from the 8K that AMR had filed with the SEC in June, and some of the company/AApfa suck-ups called it "just a rumor."
Also curious, there was little discussion of the value of the board pro or con until the actual 2002 earnings of the EC and BOD were posted on the bb for all to see. JW "earned" over $92,000 last year. Leslie Mayo who is a DR "earned" over $95,000. Less than 2 weeks later, it was decided that the bb didn't have enough participants to justify the cost. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.
Speaking of EC earnings. JW has just taken a "pay cut." It was decided that he would be paid the equivalent of an "International Purser flying 110 hours a month." How much is that? There are so many variables that he could be paid almost anything and it could be justified as meeting the above guideline. The problem is we won't know until the required government filings NEXT YEAR where the AApfa has to spell out exactly how much each officer's total compensation was for the year.