American Airslimes

Thirty years ago, American Airlines sold a bunch of "lifetime first class tickets" for $350,000 each. They allow the purchaser to fly first class, any time, anywhere that American services. A great deal if you fly a lot and happened to have that much coin laying around at the time. But now the current crop of whiz-boy managers at American have decided these "royalty" customers are cutting into their profits and are pulling every dirty trick in the book (and even some new ones) to run them off.

This is the sort of crap that gives capitalism a bad name. It's not the average mom-and-pop businesses who are serving customers and building their operations. Those are the life-blood of our economy. No, it's the megacorps, the "too big to fail" monstrosities which are staffed by fat, overpaid, under-worked suits with MBAs and empty skulls.

These individuals possess only one motivating factor: greed. They don't understand operations because they were never in operations -- and they look down their Ivy League noses at people who were. When they run into a business problem, their first reaction is to throw their own employees under the bus. When that fails, they toss the customer in after them. And when THAT fails, they go to the taxpayers with their hands out, crying their little rich-boy eyes out about being "too big to fail."

Here's my answer: fuck you. Fuck you and all your c-suite cronies. Fuck your political buddies. Fuck your bow-headed trophy wife in your McMansion.

Your company signed those contracts and you're going to honor them -- even it if means you go bankrupt. Say hello to Braniff for us.