Right, but the Pilot's beef isn't so much their actual salary as the fact that while they took a huge cut in 2003 to save the company, the senior management promptly paid themselves obscene bonuses and partied on.
Looks like the campaign to chase off the customers to get back at the mostly long gone 2003 AA management is working according to this hit piece from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/op...afkaesque.html
Not sure that the author understands the implications of entering RVSM airspace on the NAT tracks with an inop altimeter but the subsequent poor customer service made him want to complain with ink by the gallon in the NYT.
Of course, some of this story could be found on many U.S. airlines, inflight service is often a bad joke compared to Asian and Middle Eastern airlines:
Travel Well: Why Asian Airlines Are Better Than Their U.S. Competitors - Scene Asia - WSJ
Maybe Parker and US Air will be the savior for the APA but I'm not convinced.
