Nice.........pay rates that would cost at least 1/3 of the AA pilots their very jobs. Unrestricted domestic code-share is basically seppuku for anyone with 3 strips at AA, which is the whole point of their desire to outsource drastically. Who cares about pay rates then as that will vaporize the captain's upgrade for most of the F/O's, the majority of which are already in their 50's. In BK, any new pay rates can be whacked and their pension proposal isn't a whole lot better then PBGC for those junior, but scope has at least a chance of being defended to that equivilent of what the competition has.

I'll reserve final judgement until a TA arrives, but the way things look now, I'll take my chances with a bankruptcy judge and live with the result. At the very least in BK, there's a good chance that this management will feel seppuku-like pain too. Additionally, in BK it would likely be a marraige with U throwing a major wrench in management's desire to hop into the sack with JB.