Originally Posted by
syd111
Nice maybe you can move up on the backs of your brothers, hey I remember you when we went into ch-11, thx for showing your true colors!
Originally Posted by
eaglefly
I already noted this.......I mean, geez, it was pretty hard to miss.
Yes, on pilot forums, it's common for pilots to present one facade while letting the inner desires slip thorugh accidentally. Perhaps he's sincere about the APA coming out ahead, but I'll bet there would be no tears shed from him if AA were to fragment and he benefitted handsomely. Being a forum moderator doesn't eliminate the true pilot mentality that's existed for decades and that's first and foremost, "EVERY PILOT FOR HIMSELF".
I mean if you REALLY take a hard look around this industry, pilots have been attacking each other for as long as I can remember. That's exactly WHY they are in the predicements they are in, i.e., they're their own worst enemy. Mangements are simply opportunists of this and that is why it's so easy for them.
Sad, but true and it will never change.
I want AA and APA to win, not just for them but for pilot industry wide.
When I refer to fragmentation, it is not for person benefit. My view of the airline landscape includes fragmentation. I prefer for it not to be AMR, but like you, I have little control in the matter.
I know it is hard to believe but I see no personal gain in AMR getting split up. It leaves three, not four players left, and that is an issue. With three there will be room for start up carriers, with four there is too much pricing power for any more start up airlines to destroy our industry or our careers.
I have many close friends at AMR/APA and want then to win in every scenario. Like I have said, I see fragmentation as a eventuality, and it is not mean at a red meat moment for my benefit. I aplogize if you saw it that way. It is my position on where the industry is going. It very well could have been DAL and not LCC and AMR that were facing these issues. No one is immune to it.
I do hope for all pilots and especially the APA pilot's sake that APA is looking long and hard at the CH11 plan, and a possible fragmentation. It is good business to plan for every contingency. No more no less. Do not take my statement personally, I was discussing industry tectonics, not possible gains by me over you.