American Airlines Group Inc (AAL)

[rockland2u]

its a complex problem, sure its easy to say its a raise, and a raise is great, but like most negotiations, it many times is a shell game, you get a 80 dollar raise but you loose vacation, or you get a more vacation but you loose pension, you get the idea. obviously more to the situation than meets the eye. no one turns down $ with no strings. one aspect appears that f/a took barbaric pay cuts of 24% to stave off BK, and then took 12% more paycut imposed after, but don't worry now that we are raking in more money than ever they will throw 9.9% at you. mean while the work rule changes alone, pay for the raises, not to mention pensions frozen, healthcare doubles, ect. ect. so i see both sides of the argument , and many are still sore from huge cuts while executives reap millions each in bonus's alone, literally the day after the cuts. Parker just received a 44% pay raise(would have to confirm actual numbers) and several millions in bonus. which he may have done a great job (yet to be seen) but hard to handle when you still make significantly less than you did more than a decade ago.and now after more than a decade of promises of money IF we were just profitable, they take that away, just in time to continue not paying employees. anyway, just a little insight. no matter the outcome, some new agreements will for good or bad, speed up the process signifacantly, from an average 2 and half years, to a few months.