Originally Posted by mrmak2

Eagle buys its fuel from American so it "loses" as much or little as AMR decides. I think it was obvious that the 135s and 140s would be phased out no matter what based on the 145-only payscale proposed in the TA. But I don't see the benefit in parking all these airplanes and furloughing the bottom pilots after the investment in training. The concept to getting Eagle competitive was to help the senior people move on to AA and reduce the longevity disparity. Furloughing all the junior guys worsens the problem.
My gut feeling is that AA will operate 100-seat airplanes and short, narrowbody (A319) on a B-scale with long-narrowbody (A320, 737-800, etc) on an industry average payscale, i.e., Delta. Scope will be eased to allow a percentage-based 70-seat jet feed, of which Eagle will do some and other regionals will as well. Eagle will phase out the small ERJs and pick up CRJ-700s at maybe a 2:1 ratio. And Eagle will pursue outside contracts with other carriers (USAir) to offset the difference in AA flying.