If other airlines can do a hell of a lot better than American with way less flight cancellations, this tells us a lot about what is really happening here: incompetent management, being covered over by the excuse of weather. All those customers told to go pay for their own hotels are not paying for an act of God: they are paying for flying with an airline inflicted with a management crisis, that in many cases, is using the weather as a way of shielding itself from liability for sheer mismanagement.
Breaking: American Airlines is offering flight attendants double pay to work Wednesday as the airline struggles with more than 10,000 cancellations from the storm. Pilots are being offered 5 hours of extra pay. AA has cancelled 8% of flights tomorrow and has lost $150-200 million