Originally Posted by
steveholt
And you ignored the second sentence. Just about every airline in the world has pilots who live in a different place from where they work. Others have to travel to another airport because work has taken them to X and they need to get to Y to operate a flight. None of that is going to change, nor is that "zero good reason". AA's pilots have F travel negotiated into their contract, as do DL and UA.
I'm sorry but your argument that every airtime does it calls for the same answer our mothers gave us when we were 5. If everyone jumped off a bridge......
AA made an anti-customer decision because they thought the pilots had them over a barrel. It was a bad move and it should be removed from their next contract.
However, until the mandatory retirement age for pilots is increased, there's no longer a pilot shortage globally or we start flying in drones instead of planes, it's not going to happen. The erosion of loyalty programs will continue, with the possible brief pause caused by recession.