THE METROPLEX GETS HOT IN THE SUMMER

Recently, the pilots at AA wrote to customers: "AA is going to disappoint you, dear customer, just like it's disappointing us. UA and DL are so much better. And, by the way, its pilots are happier too." United just negotiated a tentative agreement with its pilots. Details unknown here.

AA's pilot union, APA, says “AA doesn't have enough pilots,” and there’s “very little buffer". “It’s a system at risk.” Then they deflect to mismanagement of precious capital when the airline should have been investing in staffing. If the APA was so prescient, why did they negotiate with management at the outset of the Pandemic to allow pilots to leave?

Two days ago, a headline in the Charlotte Business Journal read: AA CEO Robert Isom tells shareholders that labor talks are going 'really well.' Pilots disagree.

Messages from the pilot's union at Southwest, SWAPA, are different than those from your grandfather's Southwest as well.

Fragility describes so much today. How far can this cost push go? Will it be about the goose? Much more to come.

June 1, 2022