ok465:
True, the claim was made that they were unaware of the RNAV approach, and though I fully appreciate AA73's input, I'm a bit surprised this made it thru the ASAP process, but not my call.
I'd lay that one at the feet of AAL training and flight ops management rather than the crew.
Why would flight ops management permit any crew to go to this remote island airport without making certain it is understood by all that one runway end has only an RNAV IAP? Being qualified for RNAV IAPs essentially on paper only cries out for some cultural changes at AAL, similar to what we thought would happen after Cali.