TWU negotiators ready to contact NMB

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The company is bringing in billions more with around 40,000 less workers to share it with. M&R lost around 5000, other groups obviously lost just as much if not more so full restore across the board could not cost more than 60% of what we gave up. The company would still be ahead because they are paying 40,000 less people, those jobs more than pay for full restore. We wouldnt even be touching the extra billions they are taking in.

You've used the 40,000 number too many times for me to resist debunking, Bob....

March        2000      2001       2002      2003      2004      2005      2006      2007      2008      2009      2010
AA total     98296     102208     103381     97394     84641     81191     80029     78548     78943     74890     70848
From Peak    --        --         0          5987      18740     22190     23352     24833     24438     28491     32533
Post-RPA     --        --         --         0         12753     16203     17365     18846     18451     22504     26546

Source: US DOT BTS, Form 41, March data for all years shown

From the 2002 post-TWA peak, total employment (FT=1, PT=1) is down 32,533, and on a FTE basis (FT=1, PT<1), it's probably under 32,000

Post-RPA, total employment is "only" down 26,546, and on on a FTE basis, it's probably under 26,000

The cuts are large, but not anywhere close to as large as you're making them out to be.

And arguably, the RPA wasn't even the cause for the largest cuts. They appear to be more driven from network changes (e.g. paring down JFK, de-hubbing STL) and parking the F100 fleet, all of which was allowable under the pre-RPA contracts.