Now that I have been quoted I might as well drop a few lines.....
First of all. I am not with AA anymore, left them 2½ years ago.
The 5 lines I wrote abot the conditions at AA, are of course not really covering everything in detail, but I stand by my comment that if you treat them well they will do so to you.
Then I feel the need to adress a few issues. AA is not the dealer of anything (except aircraft and crew for UN+ICRC type missions.) The holding company who owns AA, has another company that among other things represents Beechcraft/Raytheon in Scandinavia. If you think that AA gets to buy aircraft and spares at some discounted rate from Raytheon due to this relationship, then I think you do non know much about business. (And I can personally vouch for the fact that we had to bloody scream for spares sometimes like everyone else.) Actually AA missed some business, and the oppurtunity to hire some good people in my time specifically due to the relationship with the Raytheon rep.
Subsidies.......hmmm..... I have not heard that one before. I find this very, very unlikely. If so they are very well hidden, and frankly I can not see from who they should get this ?? If anyone has some evidence, hard or circumstantial (don't know if that's spelled right) I would like to hear about it.
Either ways.....I thought that Balmoral won these contracts (at least the ones in Kabul) from AA a couple years ago, and now AA has won them back ?? I do not hear any sympathy for the AA guys that lost their jobs at that time ??
The last thing. It seems a little exaggerated to blame AA for the hardship of getting a JAR Flightcrew validation.....????
Come on.....
I understand that the people about to lose their jobs are dissapointed, and I feel sorry for them. I hope their employer will be able to find new work for them.
Rgds.