Originally Posted by
embraer
Exactly. Plus we are paying for the most senior Eagle captains to go to AA with our awesome new pay cuts. We take a further hit to our income so guys making over 100k/year can "afford" to go to AA. Makes sense...
In any case, even if the Oct. 11th flow through agreement has a long life span (which is questionable) it would take years to dip down low enough to affect anybody hired at Eagle within the last 3 years. We are talking 8 years minimum, possibly more. In half that time you could easily apply to and be hired by other legacy carriers.
Of course, this is all assuming that not only the agreement survives but that Eagle itself is still around. Remember that we are becoming an airline with 3,000+ pilots and no aircraft. AMR is telling us to bend over and like it, or else they will contract out all our flying to "others".
If/when AA declares bankruptcy their flying will be reduced and the company will undergo an entire restructuring. Feeders will certainly be affected.
Ya but come on man, they are ENTITLED to 5th year pay when they go to AA! I mean come on they work at just another crummy regional all these years! Why should they be on probation with probation pay when they go to a MAJOR AIRLINE? I will laugh at those who stay here when this crap pile starts to really stink in 5 years.
The best analogy to them, is a spoiled brat, whose Moms buys them everything, then one day their Mom is dying, and they think she is rich, but they only come to find out she has no life insurance, and is 70,000 in credit card debt. Now they want their divorced Daddy to bail them out.
These will be the first guys to agree to pay bumps in exchange for scope relief once at mainline.