Originally Posted by
Dr. HFH
Of course it's suspicious. Same with any death from other than natural causes. But that doesn't mean that the hotel is unsafe. I had a 2000 Acura RL and was involved in a crash. Does that mean that 2000 Acura RLs are unsafe? Not without some evidence about the cause of the crash. When an AA employee has a crash in a company vehicle, does that mean that the company should automatically get rid of all similar vehicles because they're inherently unsafe? Of course not. Same here. If I had any information which pointed to lax security existing at that hotel, let alone contributing to the murder, I'd agree with you. But the fact that the murder occurred there doesn't mean that the hotel is unsafe. In fact, the last thing I want to do is change hotels absent any evidence of lax security, thus giving my employees a specious feeling that they're safer in the new hotel, when, in fact, they may well be less safe.
Perhaps because you are an attorney, you are more used to seeing people as numbers than actual individuals with needs including the basic need to feel safe.
In any management capacity, you have to listen to your employees or otherwise you end up with a ghastly corporate culture like that of most U.S. airlines.
Byrnes can't even get AA to sell better onboard food than most non-U.S. low-cost airlines... I very much doubt he is an expert on hotel security when he fails so miserably with far simpler tasks. I asked the cabin crew on my MIA LAX flight last night and they said the guy is a real piece of work (although to be fair, they haven't had an SVP of Inflight that they liked in years now). I was told that there are also many cases when cabin crew asked him for help and his response was essentially that he was too important to be contacted directly, appalling even by AA's extremely low standards.