American Airlines pilot union leader blasts 'culture gone awry' after US Airways merger

The president of the American Airlines pilots union is blasting the airline for an “on the cheap” philosophy, and ranking it below Delta and United for employee relations, after a series of contractual disputes. “We have all witnessed a culture gone awry,” Keith Wilson, president of the Allied Pilots Association, wrote Saturday in a letter to the airline’s 15,000 pilots. Titled “Going for the Bronze?,” Wilson ranks American third among the three global carriers as a result of “industry-trailing total compensation (including United Airlines, whose pilots just inked a 2-year contract extension); fatiguing and low quality of life trips; degraded hotels; pay check miscalculations; pilot scheduling (and) obsession with D-zero door slamming on all customers and non-rev passengers under heavy threat of discipline for non-compliance.”<br/>