They run a company that is responsible for tens of thousands of jobs. I think that makes them better than the rank and file. If they weren't, then everyone would be running an airline company.
The significant majority of them (if not all of them) are already millionaires many times over and don't need these outrageous benefits.
Sure they do, again they're providing tens of thousands of jobs. However, I don't think anyone should get bonuses in the company if the company is in trouble. This is indeed pretty stupid on their part.
Yes, that's exactly what they are: greedy crooks and thieves. My AA Platinum card goes back today. Yes, that's exactly what they are: greedy crooks and thieves. My AA Platinum card goes back today.
Good! That's shopping with your dollar. I don't fly American (living in Atlanta, its either AirTran [YES!] or Delta [UGH!]), keep in mind that you not flying AA like you used to will hurt the rank and file you were championing at the beginning of your post rather than the significant majority of multi-millionaires.
Wrong! The comparison is not one between the present managment team running the company and the rank and file doing it. The comparison is between the present management team and one more qualified or able to do a better job.
Management does not compete for their jobs with the rank and file - that is a model of totalitarianism. They compete with others that are also qualified to do the job better and, when necessary, at a lower cost. That is called free competition. What you have suggested in reply to the other post, at least on this point, is utter nonsense.
Whoa, hoss, let's step down off that high horse for a moment and consider those words. Those of us in the flying business have spent thousands of hours and thousands of dollars honing our skills. As a pilot, I'm subjected to 6-month recurrent training, LOFT, CRM, bi-annual flight reviews, medicals and a host of other probes that could end my career on the spot if I failed. Dispatchers, A&Ps, flight attendants, gate agents, baggage handlers and other support and line personnel are part of an integrated team of aviation professionals who love their jobs and are expected to perform to the operational specifications that demand the highest of quality. On the other hand, most senior executives are bean counters who make specious, unilateral, destructive decisions and then laud and reward themselves with outrageous bonuses.
Calling them better is an insult to me and everyone else who has ever been part of the working, and money-making, part of the industry.
Rather, I was excoriating the "me first" executive philosophy that evidently pervades AA (and many other corporate boardrooms today). Putting one's own well-being in front of the workers--if not the company--and then calling it "management" can hardly be called "responsible".