American Airlines reviews

3.6

63% would recommend to a friend

(8,805 total reviews)
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Robert Isom

39% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

American Airlines has an employee rating of 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 8,805 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The American Airlines employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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9K reviews
2.0
Aug 3, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Sometimes you get to work with decent crew and stay in nice hotels. Also great that ppl are willing to help when you're new.

Cons

Unorganized. Non-empathetic. Overworked, underpaid. We are worked like robots or machines. 3-4 legs in one day, terrible routes back and forth i.e dca-rdu-dca-rdu-dca

3.0
Jul 18, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flight Privileges and being able to fly/travel on days off. Along with the opportunity to transfer to different stations and different open roles/positions AA May have available anywhere. However, with this position management does not allow you to transfer and leave unless they want you to be gone. This position is not union so you can’t put in a bid for another position or station. You have to actually apply on the internal job site and every application you put in has to go through your manager/supervisor first. So I feel like management definitely blocks and has a hand in who gets to transfer and move up and who doesn’t. Regardless of your resume and skills you bring to the table.

Cons

The pay doesn’t really coincide with the amount of work your tasked with doing. Not everyone is willing to work as a team and it can cause a specific individual to become burnt out from constantly picking up the slack of others. Also, the schedule isn’t very consistent and it changed pretty often. This specific is not a union position. However, management treats it as one whenever it works best for them. So beware. The flight privileges is what kept me here. However, sometimes even that’s not worth it when they constantly oversell flights.

2.0
Jun 23, 2022

Look somewhere else

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flight Benefits, that's about it

Cons

Worked here for nearly 3 years, started right before COVID. Got a 3% raise over that 3 year time and had more responsibilities than anyone in my department. Over that time we adopted the responsibilities of multiple other departments so workload was insane. Management only seems to care about how their metrics are viewed by their superiors and will dump unsustainable amounts of work on their workers. Helpdesk offers support over phone and chat, you will be doing both SIMULTANEOUSLY. Handling chats and phone calls at the same time while management is dumping new responsibilities that we have no training on. Needless to say this was a NIGHTMARE work environment. We worked from home for about 18 months which everyone loved and made work more bearable. Once they were able to force people back in the office they did. Even overnight people who had to drive to an empty office where managers don't even show up and sit alone in an office for 8-10 hours, have no interaction with co-workers cause you are on the phone 24/7, then drive home. I had maybe 5 meetings over the course of those 3 years, there is no "Collaboration". I spoke with dozens of 25+ years employees who were checked out, just running down the clock waiting to retire. They couldn't believe what this company has turned into and told me to get out ASAP. I dodged COVID for 2 years nearly and got it twice within the first 3 months back in the office. Management would dump all the work on us resulting from poor management decisions and give us nothing in return. They say they care about their employees but won't even let us work at home which not only costs them nothing, it saves them money, and saves us money! Right before I left they announced they were giving raises out finally! After nearly 3 years of nothing (outside of a company-wide 3% raise) we were finally going to get what we deserve! The raises were 2%-5% based on performance. Don't worry though, once a year you will get dominos for employee appreciation day. P.S. Also job opportunities outside of Dallas are scarce and people in those roles are lifers. Flight Benefits are great, but that's all you get. Don't expect anything nice outside of Medical.

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