A union representing 15,000 pilots who fly for American Airlines this week rejected a proposal that would have bumped pay during the upcoming holidays. The Allied Pilots Association (APA) Board of Directors unanimously voted on Tuesday not to accept the proposal, which centers on offering more pay for flying done around Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year. The union said the proposal didn’t address ongoing mismanagement issues, which has seen many pilots frustrated with an inability to get to airports to fly planes. “The problem isn’t the money. It’s the structural issues that create these storms, management storms after the storm,” Capt. Dennis Tajer, a spokesman for the union, told The Epoch Times. “You can give us a 1,000 percent increase for every trip we fly but if I can’t connect to the airplane or I can’t move my schedule to go get that money and help you out, it doesn’t …