Originally Posted by Gators300

Ok, if AA isn't making money paying less than the competition and with bare minimum staffing levels, how can they make money paying more AND increasing the number of FAs on every flight? Also, regardless of however long this negotiation goes on for, I highly doubt there will ever be a strike. That's the nuclear option and just like in war, it's mutually assured destruction. It would simply take AA from a slowly dying airline to one that dies quickly, with thousands of FAs out of jobs due to severely diminished demand when the strike ends, in the best case scenario.

Also, I disagree with your assertion that basically all FAs are the same regardless of airline, but to each their own.