Originally Posted by
npretnar
How would FAs messaging amongst each other to game the system be wrong? Is there a clause in their contract saying they cannot do this?
Originally Posted by
iadisgreat
I never said it was wrong and frankly don't care; I'm guessing though there is some rule in the contract saying that FAs cannot bid for/pickup flights that they don't intend to fly - hence AA taking action on this.
I'm not a lawyer, but to my untrained eye it looks like the flight attendants can simply claim that they place their bids based on the information that AA publishes. If AA publishes inaccurate information about the likely extent of delays that's on AA, not on the FAs that are bidding based on that info.
AA could design their FA bidding software to prevent the majority of cases where FAs bid flights that they likely won't be able to legally fly. However, that software would need to be provided with accurate delay info.