I can appreciate the frustration of all AA employees that thought in 2003 by 2008 they would have recouped their give backs. I also can understand their angrier over management bonuses paid out over the past several years while employees got measily low single digit salary increases.
But the industry has changed for the worse for all carriers, well managed and piss poor managed alike. And for now the pilots need to accept reality and just hope that AA can pull it out. What the Company as a whole really needs to be doing is become more efficient and reducing the operational defficiencies that caused this airline to turn in the worst financial performance for the most recent (2nd) quarter (exclusive of asset write downs).
The pilots should be more concerned about keeping their pensions in intact, while most Americans have seen defined pension plans go away.