American Airlies has finally filed for Chapter 11

とうとう、American Airlines (アメリカン航空）も連邦破産法の適用を申請した。

私のような１個人のところにも、下のようなメールが届いた。

 

As you may know, on Tuesday, November 29, American Airlines filed for reorganization under Chapter 11. We took this action as part of our efforts to secure our long-term success in delivering the highest standards in air travel. We are committed to meeting your travel needs with outstanding customer service and safety, and it will be business as usual at American throughout our reorganization process. More than 80,000 people at American appreciate your loyalty and look forward to continuing to serve you.

We want to assure you that your AAdvantage^® miles are secure. The AAdvantage miles that you've earned are yours and will stay yours, subject to usual policies, until you choose to redeem them for a great award with us. Likewise, your elite qualifying miles and your elite status, including lifetime status granted under the Million Miler^SM program is secure and remains intact. You will continue to earn miles through all our existing AAdvantage participating companies and you will be able to redeem those miles for the same great awards — flights, upgrades, car rentals and hotels just to name a few. And, throughout the coming year, we will be adding even more opportunities to earn miles, as well as new ways to redeem those miles.

American is honoring all tickets and reservations as usual, and making normal refunds and exchanges. And, we intend to maintain a strong presence in domestic and international markets. As we and all airlines routinely do, we will continue to evaluate our operations and service, assuring that our network is as efficient and productive as possible. Additionally, relationships with our oneworld Alliance and other codeshare partners are continuing to provide you with opportunities to earn and redeem miles for travel to hundreds of destinations worldwide, and we are honoring all tickets and reservations for travel on our partner airlines as usual. For information about American's reorganization process, please visit AA.com/restructuring.

Even more importantly, we remain committed to providing a superior customer experience with a focus on delivering what our customers value most — the newest fleet with our upcoming aircraft deliveries, network strength in the important cities of the world and world-class products, service and technology.

American Airlines has a proud history, and we will have a successful future. All of us on the American team thank you for your loyalty and we look forward to welcoming you aboard soon.

Sincerely,

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Maya Leibman
President — AAdvantage Loyalty Program

 

長いメールだが、要約すれば、破産法の適用を申請したけれど、これまでどおり飛行機は飛ばすし、あなたのマイレージは何ら影響を受けない、心配ない、ということだ。はあ。

 

昔、元JALの客室乗務員だった知人がいたが、彼女いわく、入社式当日、社長がスピーチで、

「みなさん、旅客ビジネスは絶対に黒字にならない産業です」

と、堂々言い放ったのだという。どの社長さんだったか不明だが、なかなかの御仁である。これがしばらくすると、社員はみんな、御用組合から極左組合まで、１０いくつもあったところに所属しだすんだから。ったく、航空業界は組合の巣窟である。昔、団体交渉をした経験がある身としては、彼らはまるで「社内生活保護申請者」であった。働くよりまずもう休暇、カネ、権利。

 

うちの旦那いわく、

「American was the only major airline that had not gone bankrupt since 9/11. As a result, they were saddled with the highest labor costs. They should be fine once they get through the bankruptcy」

（アメリカンは、メジャーな航空会社の中で、９．１１以降まだ潰れていない唯一の会社だったが、そのせいで、もっとも高額な労働コストを背負う羽目になった。破産すれば楽になるだろう）

とのこと。

 

わが日本国も、一度破産しなければ、外国人生活保護者を本国に引き取ってもらったり、働けるのに働かない生活保護者に強制的に仕事をあてがったり、偽装離婚して○○手当てをもらっていながら「少ない」と訴える馬鹿女たちを叱り飛ばすとかできないものだろうか。