Originally Posted by
RJ Pilot
Remember, they are planning for 700+ new hires for 2012. Its all based on AE pilots flowing to AA. All this could come to a stop the way things are going. As for TDY I have no clue.
Prepare for the worst., hope for the best.
The more things suck at AMR the more AA pilots will retire, It saved AMR money to flow as many pilots to AA as possible.
An AE Captain making $110,000 a year can be replaced by an AE captain making $60,000 plus his upgrade training $25,000 and the FO replacement for this upgrade captain and 1st year pay equals around $45,000.
So just in 1st year pay they can almost break even. Not including 401k matching, vacation time for a senior Captain. It will save allot of money. Of course these numbers are not the actual numbers just an approximation.
The TDY, the company didn't advertise the TDY for DFA-MFA and then since no one volunteered for obvious reasons, the junior guys on base were supposed to be Involuntary TDY. So of course the junior guys didn't like it and senior guys wanted it created a problem and since the company messed up they cancelled the TDY. This coming month MFA will be extremely short.