Ground Crew Strike? Work slow down? (Maintenance slowdown)
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Broad spectrum union, management (or other work group) bashing or obsequiousness is more suited to OMNI/PR. It’s against the Rules, and as it’s nearly guaranteed to be dilatory and disruptive, it is not acceptable in this forum.
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https://www.dallasnews.com/business/...ating-slowdown @JonNYC tweeted that a judge has ordered a stop to the slow down.
What the injunction can't do is create extra-mile buy in from a dispirited and generally unhappy employee base that is disjointed along work group lines; unified only in dislike of management--both of their company and their own unions. You can make somebody stop slow-walking the paperwork but you can't successfully make people keep working perpetual overtime. Or have the enthusiasm to accomplish much more if you try.
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AA's on-time performance for 2018 was very close to UA's, behind DL's and ahead of B6's. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/30926890-post1.html
What actual data are you looking at?
What actual data are you looking at?
If one adds regionals (non-AA mechanics), UA/AA comparable, but still far behind DL. Obviously, AA's regional partners are performing very well to make up (at least statistically) for some of mainline's on-time ills::
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AA's on-time performance for 2018 was very close to UA's, behind DL's and ahead of B6's. https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/30926890-post1.html
But yes, Delta is consistently much better than the other carriers whereas American is often only slightly worse than United.
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I'm looking at the data that consistently shows AA behind the other majors. Even your 2018 data agrees with that, and it was before the recent problems with the mechanics.
But yes, Delta is consistently much better than the other carriers whereas American is often only slightly worse than United.
But yes, Delta is consistently much better than the other carriers whereas American is often only slightly worse than United.
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Well, there’s actually two parts - ongoing contract issues and (escalating possible) work actions. As you point out, the former has been for years, but the latter has become progressively impactful on AA’s customers.
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I get it, the mechanics are trying to make a point. I even, in principle, agree with them. However, at the end of the day, the actions don't hurt AA - most people on the plane don't know their cause, and nobody is seriously "never flying AA again" because of a MX delay. The company doesn't get hurt, management doesn't get hurt, the customer gets hurt.
- Being pushed to UA, from AA flights that weren't in danger of being oversold
- Bags not getting to the destination when I do
- Overnight hotels/meals/transportation due to a misconnect
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What the union needs to understand is that the days of management being bullied by unions are over, too. Unions generally, and air travel industry unions in particular, don't have the kind of power that they once did. Just ask some former PATCO employees. Granted that that situation was different (the collective bargaining agreement prohibited strikes), but the unions simply are not running the show any more. Everyone needs to be reasonable.
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I am an ORD-based business traveler who flies predominantly to the West Coast. I status-matched to AS and have booked/ am booking all of my West-Coast travel on Alaska at least for the summer.
I simply do NOT have time for this nonsense.
I simply do NOT have time for this nonsense.