Protests over AMR management's poor performance - which is documented in the airlines loss of over $330 million this year - captured news headlines and broadcasts nationwide.

Despite their poor performance and glaring failures resulting in the grounding of the MD80 fleet for safety reasons, these same executives awarded themselves $32 million in "retention" bonuses.

Passengers and pilots, meanwhile, are united in the demand for restoration of the maintenance, manning and pay levels required to return American Airlines to the top of the airline rankings.
Bonuses for awful performance and the operations failures that have landed American Airlines on the bottom of the airline rankings:


Gerard Arpey:
• $6.6 million
• Accepted "responsibility" for the maintenance debacle that grounded 300 MD80 for a week - but made no management or operational changes.


Bob Reding:
• $2.6 million
• Actually responsible for the maintenance and operations failures - but pocketed the cash and remains in the position of VP-Operations.


Tom Horton:
• $2.8 million

Dan Garton:
• $2.8 million
Coverage of protests against a greedy, incompetent AMR management team that led American Airlines to a $332 million loss in the first  quarter of 2008--but nonetheless paid themselves $31 million in "retention" bonuses: