LOL! Don't believe the party line here. This has nothing to do with the employees of AA, DL, or UA. The second the US government allowed them to, every single one of those companies would fire their workforce and use the cruise line model of registering their fleet abroad and crewing them with the cheapest possible labor they could find.

This is about other companies coming in with better products and threatening the US airlines' ability to make billions in excess profits for the shareholders without reinvesting any meaningful amount of that money in customer experience, employees, equipment, infrastructure, IT, etc.

But of course, they can't say that, so they'll tell you it's about American jobs...