If you reckon you bunch are 22% worse off than you used to be, so much more my argument about how you lot have priced yourself outta your jobs!
Jack,
I'll use lots of little words if you promise to read slowly.
1. That 22% is a very simple number. Salaries at AA haven't wildly risen out of control. An AA narrow body pilot back then received a salary that had 22% more purchasing power than the same narrow body pilot in 2003. Seems to me the "free market" has had an effect in reducing AA pilots salaries.
Seems you and your management are both as guilty for your current woes. I rest my case, sorry.
Last payraise for AA pilots was 8/2000. Over the last 10 years we have averaged near 1% annually. Any village idiot would notice that can't compete with something like a $2.6 Billion stock buyback.
"both as guilty"? Sure Jack. Your village is looking for you.