So, Parker gave a quote about stuff like improving on-time performance and fixing broken on-board equipment. And I've yet to see even the most die-hard AA partisan suggest that those aren't problems AA needs to address; all I've seen is endless "what's the deal with airline food" derails that rage for pages at a time.

And this thread, and other threads, have seen pmUS people pointing out the utter lack of customer-service culture at AA compared to US, which is a pretty big deal. But it either gets ignored or talked over with yet another food derail.

So... anybody want to talk about that? Or about improving the AA fleet by giving an S80 (free to a good home) to those nostalgiphiles who just can't imagine life without 1970s-era aircraft flying them everywhere? Or about anything at all other than another endless thread bickering about the food?

I ask because when the program merge announced last month, there were AA folk telling us to hurry up and get through the stages of grief within a couple days of having the pmUS program gutted. And, um, yeah. About that whole moving-on thing. The food. It is time. To. Get. Over. It. For. The. Love. Of. All. That. Is. Holy.

Seriously, I will stop complaining about the loss of an entire tier of the program, if y'all will either learn to live with the food or keep it in the dedicated thread, so we can talk about other things that are important and need to be addressed.