Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
This observation based on your extensive knowledge of my background, I presume.
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I'm an attorney who has represented numerous AA employees and I have copies of a number of successive APFA contracts on my bookshelf, among other AA legal documentation.
The arrangement I was talking about (which I could have said more clearly) was one in which AA contracts with the hotel for, and pays for, a certain number of rooms
every night whether they are used or not. Obviously these arrangements are limited to locations where the regular schedule calls for crew overnights most or all nights.
I guess that's where some people were going - in an airport like EHL which is an outstation and the scheduling is such that the expectation is that all flight and cabin crews fly an outbound segment and immediately turn around, does AA maintain a standing contract with a particular hotel at a given rate?
I'll guess a second question would have to be: is the contract different because its not AA per see that is the contracting party, but instead may be Republic Airways or PSA Airlines (since AA itself does not fly the route).