I am currently an AAdvantage Platinum Pro member for American Airlines. I travel weekly for work and less frequently for leisure all through American. I have seen and more recently experienced the decline of what was a customer centered, reputable organization. Not keeping up with the comfort and technological updates that Delta and United are offering on their aircrafts, employing people like Wellington, a bag drop agent in Fort Lauderdale whose customer service is non-existent, paying their flight attendants as if they were living in 2012 and many other things I rather reserve to simply close this chapter, are some of the reasons why American Airlines have lost my business and respect as well as those around me.
I encourage senior leadership and C-Suite to start a book club and start with Jim Collin’s How the mighty fall. It may help you reflect on your decisions and possibly rethink what customer service is because at the moment you are giving it its worst meaning.