Originally Posted by
ingleburg5
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.
The only problem with what you saying is that you only inculde the aircraft. The "flight ops" or the entire group of "assets" include, Aircraft, gates, or routes operated by Eagle in the previous 12 months. The only way a new carrier can take a "market, or route" is if Eagle stopped flying completely in a market or route for 12 months..