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American Airlines: 700 Phoenix flight attendants will need to move
American Airlines says it will need to move more than 700 Phoenix-based flight attendants to other hub airports now that it has integrated the systems used to manage flight-attendant scheduling after the airline's merger with US Airways. The airlines merged in 2013, but the flight-attendant management systems did not. The two systems could not intermingle, and flight attendants could only be assigned to planes associated with their respective legacy airlines. Former US Airways flight… (www.yahoo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I have a few friend that work for AA and say morale could not get much lower. I doubt this will help.
Well the PHX base was a hold over of America West "Cactus" so I would not be surprised if most of them actually lived in the area. A lot of the AWA FA's had been with the company for decades so having to pickup and go to some less than appealing area probably isn't a choice they would want to make. AA always seemed to manage with a "take it or leave it because we don't care" attitude. It just gets worse as they merge with another airline and use unique "tactics" to get rid of whatever segment of employees they want gone. The favorite is to reassign to another crewbase. The ones they don't want get BOS, LGA, DCA, LAX or ORD. All the cities that have horrid weather, high cost of living, or are a nightmare to commute to.
What is the point of spinning this as if AA were mandating that FA's move immediately?
A lot of unhappy people already - what a great way to demoralize them more.
AA has been such a devious carrier for years. Eastern first then TWA. Then USAirways who was still trying to get things with America West & Piedmont settled to throw everything up in chaos again. Watch AA will now change to a new reservation system and it will go completely "under the sea"
How simplistic. The truth would be more like 2000 (just a guess) if they all moved out. The reality is that many, if not most will commute. I don't envy them and refused to commute during my career.