JUNE On Time Performance

[Winglet]

Just another example of the FAILURE of management. They wring their hands and bleet about employees, but the failures are THEIRS. Yet they get paid fat bonuses. AA is doomed unless there is new management that really wants to run an airline and not just bleed it to death into their own pockets.

 

[ual777fan]

This company just doesn't get it...Employee morale is as detrimental to the company as high fuel prices..The whole mantra of we all have to pull together to survive just doesn't cut it anymore...
layoffs and capacity reduction and aircraft groundings are inevitable and unfortunate. This is the path this company should've taken BEFORE they decided to rape us!

Had they gone this route in the first place, they would only be dealing with high fuel prices and not low employee morale and apathy.

Back in 2003, AA was hours away from filing for Ch.11 if their weren't concessions agreements from the unions. The unions agreed to concessions, and I would argue that AA's employees are better off because of it, as they make more than any of the other legacy carriers (save Southwest). AA employees still have benefits and pensions, which is more than the people at UA, US, NW and DL can say.

Yes, the executives shouldn't have taken those bonuses. Yes, Arpey is a beancounter without a real vision on how to distingush American from the rest of the airlines in the skies. But, he is a good bean counter and has kept the airline on a pretty steady keel until oil prices soared north of $100 a barrel.

 

[The Goose]

Back in 2003, AA was hours away from filing for Ch.11 if their weren't concessions agreements from the unions. The unions agreed to concessions, and I would argue that AA's employees are better off because of it, as they make more than any of the other legacy carriers (save Southwest). AA employees still have benefits and pensions, which is more than the people at UA, US, NW and DL can say.

Yes, the executives shouldn't have taken those bonuses. Yes, Arpey is a beancounter without a real vision on how to distingush American from the rest of the airlines in the skies. But, he is a good bean counter and has kept the airline on a pretty steady keel until oil prices soared north of $100 a barrel.

There are many still working for American that wouldn't have been (maybe) had American filed for Chapter 11 protection. We all know what they threatened, but we'll never know what would actually have happened had bankruptcy occurred.

Just like in poker, one has to pay for a look at their opponent's winning hand; if you don't see and call the bet, you're not due a look.

I have questioned the 'on-the-way-to-the-courthouse' story due to its dramatics - it did make a good story but the management had too much to lose then on a personal basis. It's even worse now due to the October 2005 changes in the Chapter 11 laws (assuming a relatively honest judge is drawn).