Originally Posted by Whacker77

So Eagle went from hiring as many as 500 pilots in 2012 to now losing 200 out of 289 planes? That makes sense. In other words, they would go from a pilot group of 3200 to a group of around 1200. Sure.

AMR's bankruptcy has been baked in the cake for months. Everyone knew it was coming as indicated by the large number of pilots who retired at AA in order to lock in their pensions. I'm not saying there's nothing to worry about, but the idea Eagle would be downsized by 70% is not likely.