Originally Posted by
squawkoff
If Eagle is going away, why let 119 pilots that were on the ATR sit around with pay until April to incur the cost of training to move to other equipment? Granted that could always change since this is the first half of Feb but I would think they would have furloughed immediately (other than the DEC 5th class.) I really expected AMR to try and furlough out of seniority order so they could avoid the big training bubble. IMO they have bigger plans for Eagle. What they are none of us know. Only time will tell.
I think AMR doesn't want to lose market share during Chapter 11. Thus, they want to renegotiate short-term leases on the Embraer fleet and make a smooth replacement process once they exit. How many and where those replacements go, is the question.
In the mean time, Eagle doesn't yet know the scope (pun intended) of its future or the schedule of replacement. We'll have to wait a bit longer to get some answers.