Parker set to make Important Announcement on 9 June 2015

[WorldTraveler]

What are the odds that a LAX - SYD flight will have a humane amount of legroom? Just asking...

or rather elbow room.

in standard coach, if AA uses a 777 or 787, it will offer a narrower seat than either airline the other JV in the US-Australia market where 9 abreast is the standard on the 777.

that will be true if it involves JNB as well.

 

[MAH4546]

With AA now easily becoming the largest long-haul carrier at LAX by most metrics, and the only airline connecting LAX with five continents, what will be the new measurement used to make sure Delta keeps the lead?

 

[bob@las-AA]

We went from a limited C/S policy to a nonexistent one to the current C/S policy that fits the line stations but not Tulsa.  AA expects us to take vacation time for doctor appointments as well as watching the gate times like a hawk.  Anyone outside the gate for more than 30 minutes is fired.  I remember when AA told the TWU that gate times would not be used for discipline purposes.  Basically when you are at work you are on lockdown.  We have a little bit of flexibility but now there is none.  I would consider this worse than what we had.

Two things people hate the most, change and the way things are. (a borrowed quote from a past post)

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

With Qantas already flying DF+W to SYD, It's LAX / SYD...For SURE,..............and maybe a little 'more', but LAX / SYD for sure !
 
( G D......AA should have bought a half dozen 777-200LR Worldliners.....YEARS AGO ) !

 

[JFK Fleet Service]

"We're going streaking!"

"We're gonna' lose a lot of money really quickly!"

 

[WorldTraveler]

With AA now easily becoming the largest long-haul carrier at LAX by most metrics, and the only airline connecting LAX with five continents, what will be the new measurement used to make sure Delta keeps the lead?

except that DL hasn't announced what it will do....your lead, like with LAX-MEX might last about the time it takes for DL to roll out its press release.

or until AA replaces all of its LAX-Asia and Brazil flying with much smaller 787s.

Given that AA is sucking wind to Latin America and LAX-GRU is not getting fares even close to what AA gets to DFW, they can't afford to continue to leave that much capacity in the market when people are regularly getting roundtrips from Brazil to the west coast for well under $1000 roundtrip - including taxes.

 

[exs]

If you look at your Jetnet , The Title of the announcement say Let's Fly away, then there's a question, What good news gets you down? It looks like they're changing the non-rev policies again. In the MIA town hall meeting a F/A compared our non travel to Delta's, saying that Delta's is better and you know how Parker hates it when you something is better in Delta for employees.

 

[Crash Pad DCA]

from aa.com

 

[Kev3188]

If you look at your Jetnet , The Title of the announcement say Let's Fly away, then there's a question, What good news gets you down? It looks like they're changing the non-rev policies again. In the MIA town hall meeting a F/A compared our non travel to Delta's, saying that Delta's is better and you know how Parker hates it when you something is better in Delta for employees.

Maybe they were trying to be cute and "down" was a nod to "down under?"

 

[Crash Pad DCA]

watch live feed of news conference here:
http://hub.aa.com/en/nr/press-conference

 

[bunt3dunk]

he is going to reinstate profit sharing ! HA-HA !

 

[OldGuy@AA]

Two things people hate the most, change and the way things are. (a borrowed quote from a past post)

Nobody has a problem with change when the attempt is to make things better.  These changes seemed to be designed to aggravate people so they quit.  Medical insurance premiums have skyrocketed while providing less coverage, Parker and company are looking to outsource all maint. they can. (I know that doesn't affect you) and there are lots of changes locally in Tulsa that are not employee friendly.  Meanwhile Parker, Seymore and Isom won't commit to anything that would result in any kind of job future for any OH mechanic.  I honestly can't think of a single thing that has come along since the merge that has been a good thing.  But I am an AMT and the New American has already made it clear they want as many of us gone as they can push out the door.  They'll go after you and the rest of Fleet Service next.

 

[autofixer]

Yep, West Coast centric.

 

[commavia]

So now it's out publicly ... daily 77W LAX-SYD, with QF starting SFO-SYD.
 
And with that, AA will now be flying LAX-Australia, and by my math, at least, AA will with these adds and the pending EMB175 to MZT have essentially completely closed the gap, if not overtaken Delta, in international capacity out of LAX.

 

[jcw]

Wait remember how someone kept posting how bad the partnership with QF was bad for employees because AA does not fly its own metal to SYD - well it's a tough one to try and spin that away now that AA has its own metal going to SYD

It's amazing how AA continues to grow at LAX - I guess it's not gate constrained