American flight attendant in trouble over bankruptcy parody videos

An American Airlines purser of 24 years is under fire after posting a couple of parody videos regarding American’s bankruptcy.

The first video, “Aluminum Lady,” is a parody of “Iron Lady,” and talks about the cuts going on at American:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxlXJtDT-_M

The second video is a parody of the letter sent out to flight attendants by an American Airlines Vice President:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM8G12FHfeA

Anyway, you can see the letter sent to him by American here, which requests he attend an investigatory meeting. It says he can be terminated if he doesn’t show up, though since he’s presently on leave he seems to have asked for it to be rescheduled.

What do you guys think? Is this flight attendant out of line for making the videos? Is American out of line for drawing even more attention to them?

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AL Parker Guest

As a 30plus yr veteran of a major airline its comical that the management verbiage is essentially the same rhetoric. How lame of AA spokesperson to state they can not tolerate harassment of employees. Who is getting harassed? Hopefully a few "decision-makers" are getting some long overdue feedback they need but regrettably won't make any difference. AA will fire the "disgrace" to wash their hands of the situation. and bonuses will continue to line the execs pockets-after all those who get the bonuses are so worthy of it, there is no one out there that could replace them for what they are worth that it takes all kinds of stock options & bonuses to retain the "best-of-the-best" to run AA. Nevermind that there is no requirement that AA make profits to justify those bonuses. I say keep the seasoned flight attendant and dump the fat on top-remember the airline motto--"if you are not working directly with a customer, then you better be working with someone who is".

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Hockey Mom Guest

Oh come on people ... This is all in fun ... Does AA care that SNL would do a skit on them . Our the all the night Tim e talk show do this try if stuff . What does AA think that there people are going to just roll over and take it in the rear again . We have the Internet to help spread the word of how AMR has beat up there employes for to long . This is not 1970 any more .. Hope he opens the public to what they have done to there people after are Crandell has left

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andrew Guest

@Steve- The "woman" in the video is a man in drag.

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Jeff E Guest

You evidently haven't flown American in awhile. The employees share in the demise of this airline along with those of the other legacy carriers that have filed bankruptcy over the years. MANY American flight attendants for YEARS treated their passengers just as they claim that management has treated them. I think you need to read some reviews on Skytrax on both United and American to get the flavor of the situation. Read some reviews on YELP also and compare them to ANY Asian carrier. Folks until these absolute comments like many above that blame managements entirely for situations like that at AMERICAN we will continue to lose ground to foreign competition.

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Teresa Guest

If I treated my employees they way those folks have been treated, this video would be the least of my worries. Nothing more than Corporate Greed and poor management decisions that destroyed that airline.

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