Originally Posted by
arlflyer
I'd take back those old days in a heartbeat over the current state of the "premium" airline AA - sitting on hot tarmac with no crew while supposed, I guess, to feel smug about the presence of a buttonhole in my napkin, their 3-class transcon product that doesn't fly to my city, or some new flight to Sydney that I'll never use.
Your last sentence so perfectly sums up why this merger has sucked for both sides; LAA folks wanted to keep our superior FFP and reasonably good onboard product - we were willing to live with rolling hubs and maybe subpar punctuality because we were used to a good (decent) product. We wanted AA to expand to HKG and SYD (among many others). LUS flyers obviously could care less about any of these things. Too bad it's LUS management that's in charge and now has no idea how to do either.