I am told that the head of operations is away on holiday at present and has left the shop in the hands of a couple of juniors.
These not a whole lot of difference between them.
in my opinion AA needs to sort out their operations department by employing qualified operations controllers, reshuffle management to those who actually know how to run an airline,
It's called nepotism and it runs very think in these departments, with each covering each others back, hence the reason why the crews get the blame for everything. The will be no change until its to late, and then it won't matter, the managers know it which is why they took there bonuses, the ship is sinking what difference a couple more holes!!
With any luck at all aer lingus will keep on the ATR service and employ at least some of the crews, and i wish them the very best of luck, but it has to be said that any hope of AA becoming a success ended the day the transaer bunch arrived. It only ever survive from then thanks to the PSO cash.