We've griped about weather related issues and what appears to be sluggish responses. And eventually both AA and US systems operations center will merge. The initial step is building a new integrated operations center (includes such functions as dispatch, maintenance coordination, etc.)
Last year, AA broke ground on the new Integrated Operations Center at DFW, which will host current OCC employees at AA's Center and those from US' five year old Center in Moon Township, near PIT
PHL (built with significant local subsidies, the 600 employees were advised last year of the closure and of relocation options forvDFW)
...American Airlines executives and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price put shovels in the dirt to break ground on the carrier’s new (Robert Baker) Integrated Operations Center south of Dallas/Fort Worth Airport.
The facility, which is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2015, will house more than 1,400 employees who oversee the airline’s flights and customers. The two-story, 149,000-square-foot building will be at 4700 American Blvd., adjacent to the carrier’s flight academy and the C.R. Smith Museum, on the west side of Texas 360. The project will cost $88 million.
Read more here:
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/bu...#storylink=cpy
Some of the operational differences will probably go away once both airlines have merged their OC centers personnel into the new 1,400 employee Integrated Operations Center currently under construction near DFW. I'm guessing this will occur by year's end, based on statements and a letter to US OCC employees last year from Tim Campbell, etc.
Consolidating our two operations centers into one team, adjacent to our primary flight training center and our corporate headquarters, is the right decision for our business and our customers and a necessary step on our mission to make the new American the world’s best airline," spokesman Todd Lehmacher said in an email.
AA release
http://hub.aa.com/en/nr/pressrelease...rt-w-baker-ioc
Star Telegram article
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/bu...le3864626.html
Airways mag article on current IOCC
http://airwaysnews.com/html/airplane...th-tx-usa-2013
WTAE on closure of 5 year old US OCC at Moon Township near PIT
PHL http://m.wtae.com/news/us-airways-op...state/24096910