Originally Posted by
Stryker
Also if you read the agreement (if you can get on the alpa website yet), it says that even if planes are outsourced, our pilots are the ones who fly them. That sounds like SOME job security. Maybe not enough for some people though....
You are assuming that whomever wins a new CPA with American would use Eagle aircraft. It could very easily occur like this: 1. American retires the EMB135's/140's/some 145's and the ATR's 2. Another company comes in with their own CRJ200's/EMB145's and Q400's and uses those. I don't believe the pilots are protected at that point (except for the furlough language). The whole point of diversifying is to decrease costs. Using the same aircraft and the same pilots is not going to decrease costs.