Yes, I guess it depends what side of the fence you sit on E. From your side and corporate america who feel it's ok to steer a company into bankruptcy only to take everything from the employees that have worked many years to gain. To demoralize a workforce to the point to where they finish at the bottom of the DOT rankings year in and year out. To smile with your parachute all the way to the bank while watching many lives be changed forever, then yep, touche' E, that's great business sense.
Pathetic!!
Horton didn't ask to be replaced. You and your peers asked for that.
Like it or not, the changes he sought weren't any different from what a lot of people had been saying all along: AA's labor costs and workrules were out of whack with its competition. You had eight years to find solutions, and could only come up with snapbacks and full pay to the last day as alternatives.
AA was performing at the bottom of the DOT rankings for years before Horton was CEO, and seems to me y'all have been bitter and demoralized since 2003.
I see all these excuses being thrown around for what was wrong at AA, but rarely does anyone hold themselves or their own contract up to any scrutiny.
It's like firing the coach over a losing season. It happens all the time in sports, but rarely changes how well you do in the next game or how you place next season. For that, you need to start replacing people on the field or changing how they're used.
Seems you guys just wanted to fire the coach and maintain your status quo.
The unions didn't like Crandall, but individuals couldn't help but be swayed/pursuaded by him when they spoke to him in person or went to a live event where he was speaking...
You didn't like Carty (who seemed to be willing to check emotion at the door and make decisions), you got Arpey.
You didn't like Arpey (who knew what had to be done but didn't want to be the one to pull the plug), you got Horton.
You don't like Horton (who managed to make the tough calls, go to the mattresses, or whatever other cliche you need to understand things...), and now you've gotten your way, for the third time in a row, before the guy even had a chance to prove whether or not the changes he'd made were going to work.
After going thru three CEO's in ten years, do you really think a fourth CEO is going to make a difference?...
I don't.
It's entirely possible that you guys really are the problem. Your contracts, your representatives, the way you've/they've approached negotiations, how everyone else is always to blame...
It never ceases to amaze me how some of you never stop pissing and moaning about how bad things are, yet are too chickenshit to actually do something about it, like replacing the representatives who made the bed you're now sleeping in... You spare no amount of criticism for those actually making the hard calls, but don't want to hold yourself accountable.
Sorry, but that's the stuff that happened at Eastern, Braniff, and Pan Am. If that's what you want, go for it. I think they still sell blinders at Tractor Supply or Farm & Fleet.
Go ahead, guys. Click the red arrows like crazy. I can handle it.
