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American Airlines chairman, president and CEO Tom Horton said parent company AMR Corp. will soon make a decision on whether to emerge from bankruptcy protection as a standalone entity or as part of a merged carrier with US Airways .
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The Allied Pilots Association said, The APA leadership continues to support a merger with US Airways as the best path to a stronger, more competitive American Airlines that will in turn enhance our pilots long-term career prospects.
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If you want to operate a successful airline, you must have three ingredients, Knowledge, desire vision...all of them are missing in AA management. Imported management from a third rated telecommunication company (which basic business principle is to rob the customer) can't operate a world class airline.
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This trainwreck of a merger will be a tipping point for the US airline industry. Competition and flying will be reduced to the point that the remaining carriers will form a cartel. There will be no pressure to compete. The traveling public, the economy and many cities will be harmed by this(anybody remember what AA did with TWA, Reno Air, or Air Cal??? How about St Louis?). hotels southbeach miami florida If this merger is approved, it should be done with condition that the domestic market should be opened up to foreign competition. I never thought that I would support cabotage, but then again...I never thought that we would be at this point in history when capacity and competition has been so reduced as to hurt the consumer and alter how we travel. I welcome anyone to explain how this merger will benefit anyone besides stockholders, or be of anything but a further blow to the US economy. The state of Alaska, where I live has been significantly harmed by previous mergers, including the 3 previous hotels southbeach miami florida AA mergers, as well as the DL/NW and UA/CO combos. hotels southbeach miami florida I truly hope that congress steps in on this one. Icertainly intend to bring it to the attention of our two senators that US is Alaska's ONLY year-round LCC option, and this would be a huge impact on our economy, yet again.
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At one time, av8ster hotels southbeach miami florida (likely before you were born), to be a CSA, you needed to have a college degree. The job then was more difficult. These days, they can hire anyone off the street in the US to scan tickets and put bag tags on luggage.
Sadly, the American public has no idea what real "customer satisfaction" is anymore. It's who can get us their for cheapest and quickest. I don't think the American public would pay higher fares that other airlines charge for quality service that you see in Asian and Middle Eastern airlines.
Personally, I have no stake in American. But I hope it remains a stand alone airline, it will remain in the top 3, but I don't think it will emerge as the leading US carrier again in the near future.
It's over for American in terms of what it means for the employees. They want the good old days and those are gone for good. Enjoy the continued trend of working longer for less and taking it out on us the paying passenger!
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So then US + AA will have basically THREE separate pilot seniority lists. That does not bode well for them. US should indeed fix it's own internal union issues hotels southbeach miami florida before taking on the most radical pilots union in the industry. US just wants the DFW and MIA hubs in my opinion. They'll screw over the majority hotels southbeach miami florida the the employees, and the AA brand will lose a lot of respect. Falling further and further behind Delta and United.
Would you rather have a combined provider in the form of a merged AA/UsAir, even if the frequencies are reduced. Or would you prefer a stand alone AA who can not compete with the larger carriers and who will eventually go under leaving you with no service at all.
Any possible merger should be denied as being anti-competitive. It would be a bad deal for the traveling public. The unions hsould look at the current merger situation with US and see what would happen to them. Those unions will do everything possible to put AA employees at the bottom on any seniority list just like AA did to TWA employees.
THANK YOU to all the posters for making me remember why I left the airline industry in 2005 after 21 years of service. Pick your decade - you could transport ANY these responses to the late 80's, the 90's, the 2000s. The problems were the same then as they are now and will be in the future, and the awful union-management relationships are eternally intractable. Working for the airlines is truly a truly horrible career choice.
Given that the current USAirways is run as two seperate airlines I think this merger could be a nightmare. It is too bad that their is only one domestic airline whose philosophy is "if your employees are happy your customers will be happy".
American Airlines is controlled, operated and managed by non-professional management/board members. They have zero interest experience in operating a world class airline. They are thinking Doug Parker(US Airways) will save them. Doug Parker is the worst CEO after "Frank Lorenzo"(very hotels southbeach miami florida famous for coming with empty wallet and leaving with hundreds of millions).They hotels southbeach miami florida have no clue what is "customer service", hotels southbeach miami florida how to treat good employees.
American Airlines is not getting the benefit of even 1% from the "One World" hotels southbeach miami florida alliance. American Airlines management/board members can't tell what is "yield management" , "route planning", economically feasable landing and take off slots' ,hub spoke system utilization'.
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My last day at American was this last Thursday! I will turn 50 in January and am taking all my vacation between now and then. I too have had it with the rich getting richer and the blue collar guy getting less and less for more hours worked!