You fools! Give the executives 30% pay increases so they will get off their buttocks and make the right decisions to save the company. If you don't shower them with more money they will have little incentive to to do so. Send me $10,000 for my excellent idea. Do you miss me yet?

Respectfully,

George Bush

hey Mr. Dave, you have no clue about the airline biz.  I have worked for a AMR  competitor for 27 years, & I am not a pilot.  It is true the airline biz has one of the worst business plans out there.  Pilots get paid for flying a aluminum tube at 500+ miles an hour through all kinds of obstacles. The most important job they have to is to get the plane in the air safely, & more importantly to land it safely. What's your important job Mr. Dave?  filing clerk? 

  The airline biz is flawed....period!  Allow people to fly around the country for "peanuts".  Airplanes are not cheap, as well as parts to fix them.   A titanium fan blade that gets damaged from a wayward goose flying into the engine, costs are a mere $12,000 & up a piece.  Lots of labor needed to run airline operations, which maens labor costs are expensive for airlines. But, the most expensive cost now is jet fuel. You can fly from Boston-LA for $500 roundtrip these days. Try driving that, & see what you pay, & also how long it will take you.

  Airline managements are way overpaid, just like most greedy corporations in America today. Airlines always go after the rank & file for paycuts, instead of pricing their product to actually make money.  Also the US government taxes on airlines are the highest of any industry in America today.  The bright Harvard airline managers, just suck up most of those taxes in the ticket price, instead of passing it on to the consumer.  Another flaw in airline managements business 101.  They all care about the all important "market share", instead of pricing their product to make money.  Look at what that did for GM!

  Until executive pay is brought in line with the rank & file in this country, we will continue to see businesses failing at rapid paces. . AMR has been mismanaged for years, have a faulty biz plan, always go after their employees for givebacks, & fly older gas guzzling planes.There only hope is probably some big megadeal merger, as I don't believe the govt. will step in & rescue them as "too big to fail" this time around.  There goes another 100,000+ jobs lost in this country.  Of course the fat cat managers will take their bonuses, & retire to Aruba.