"And people like me who took a pay cut when I was younger so I could fly free to enjoy my retirement are losing our flying privileges," she says. "Retirees can only fly after all active company employees and their families of a merged American and US Airways get the available seats. And after executives and their families fly free in first class for life. So someone hired by American last week gets ahead of someone like me with 33 years of service, especially at a time when we made the sacrifices to save this airline."