Or maybe with fewer planes in the air and load factors analysts thought were impossible just a few years ago, they can afford to lose a few bookings in the short term.

If you are talking about Tuesday Sept 18, this is a bad data point - there were weather delays across the northeast. Today might be a better day to compare performance.

I'll be hanging tough with American through he## or highwater
As long as US Air is not involved in any way running the company or the program
If it takes 3 days to get home or get to work so be it.
However I can always hop on another carrier either through rebooking or buying a ticket elsewhere.
Over a holiday period I might look at things differently
AA is the best of all what we have in our country and for today anyway I'm sticking to that story!

I believe there are federal legal barriers that prevent firing people when they are negotiating through a union.

Can someone more knowledgeable contribute here?

Just another reason they should have went through this when everyone else was. Just like Ford - they try to do the right thing, everyone else gets some sort of financial/labor help and in the end they get screwed for being the "good guys".

2 hr delay last week on DFW-OKC, 1 hr this week (200 mile flight)

Every day, my bid of $458.25 looks better and better! (see signature line)

McCartney generally does pretty lightweight columns (not articles or stories). His pieces are mostly superficial in nature. His modus operandi starts with a grain of truth and like any good propagandist expands it logarithmically. It just what he does. Serious airline industry stories, in the WSJ, are left to real reporters.

MO

WSJ recommends booking away from AA
 

My brothers dfw-cmh went "mechanical " on Monday. And today his return also went "mechanical". Both times they need new equipment.

My dfw-iah flight did go mechanical today and an hour later we got a new aircraft to make the trip. Same crew so it was a mechanical issue.

Seeing that this is the AA forum, it's not surprising that we would see a lot of fAAnboys defending the carrier, and bashing the competition. However, with regards to IIROPS, it's important to remember that as capacity has been cut, it's difficult for ANY domestic carrier to re-book. That's one of the reasons that I now have loyalty to non-stop flights, not carriers. YMMV.

I would agree with that assessment.

I'm flying AUS-ORD on Oct 11, returning on Oct 14. Fingers crossed that this issue is resolved before then.

I booked a business class ticket to ICN today on JAL. This ticket would normally have gone to AA, but I have responsibilities at home and I need this trip to be a "get in, get the job done and get out" experience. Right now, I cannot count on AA to make that happen.

For the record, that is approximately US$7000 in lost revenue for AA.

To punish AA you should have booked with UA/NH or with DL, because AA and JAL, thanks to their immunized joint venture, will share the profits from your purchase (don't know the details of that profit-sharing).

UA would be defeating the purpose.

Also he wasn't necessarily trying to punish AA... just to get home in time. Although if they share profits, I would've opted for JAL flights on AA stock

Check out the CNN report that is airing right now. AA is about to experience an avalanche of bad publicity.