Her point is that a 12 year CA at Pinnacle can instantly become furloughed should NWA decide to scuttle Pinnacle and transfer their aircraft to another operator. Also, Pinnacle had to bid on their own flying, putting pressure on the pilots to accept a lower-paying contract.

At least with Eagle, they are contractually obligated to do AMR's flying. AMR can't just farm out their flying left and right, or put their flying up for bid.

Of course, like you mentioned, with job stability comes lower pay/slower movement. This is the same outside aviation as it is in aviation.

IMO, pilots should be shooting to work for a company that operates on it's own. Subcontractors are easy to replace.