2.24.26 – Meager Profit Sharing Highlights Another Cost of Failed Leadership

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Meager Profit Sharing Highlights Another Cost of Failed Leadership

American Airlines is significantly trailing its competitors — and no amount of spin can hide that reality. While the company managed to squeeze out a small profit for full-year 2025, that modest result only highlights how far behind we have fallen compared to Delta Air Lines and United Airlines. In an industry where our premium competitors are delivering strong margins and operational reliability, American is stumbling in its attempt to catch up.

CEO Robert Isom says he is “disappointed” in the meager profit-sharing result. Employees are living with the consequences of CEO Robert Isom’s decisions, which have left this airline trailing its premium competitors in profitability, operational performance, and overall competitiveness.

A razor-thin profit and a negligible profit-sharing pool are not measures of success. They are the result of a strategy that has failed to position American as a true premium carrier. By virtually every meaningful financial and operational metric, we are way behind. American ranks at or near the bottom in respected industry benchmarks, including the J.D. Power 2025 North American Airline Satisfaction Study and The Wall Street Journal’s 2025 Best and Worst Airline Rankings.

Robert Isom has failed to make American an industry leader. The numbers, the rankings, and the lived experience of our crews make that undeniable. And now, Flight Attendants and all Employees at American and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Envoy, Piedmont, and PSA, are paying a price: negligible profit sharing compared to what our peers at Delta and United receive. This disparity is the direct result of failed leadership and a strategy that has left us trailing. Our careers, our compensation, and our future are absorbing the cost.

We have no confidence that CEO Robert Isom can reverse this downward trajectory. It is time for real accountability and leadership capable of restoring American Airlines to true competitiveness.

In Solidarity,