eaglegly--what can you say. he was at AE and flowed recently to AA. The door to the street is close to him. Comair style scenario, what a crock of BS he and all others that say that sling. Comair went on strike, AE has a no strike clause, and the MEC will sign another letter to that effect (guaranteed). So what Comair scenario.

Let's see how many of those new aircraft on order (all leased) actually show up to AA. Airbus, AA can sublease them to jet Blue, B737, AA can sublease them to West Jet and Alaska, why well because that is where all the domestic code share flying will go from AA.
Remember TH says they will grow internationally not domestically. If AA can get the same amount of passengers and profit on the international flight with out the expense of transporting them to the international flight (code share) then thats what they will do.

eaglefly take your slanted views back to APA. AA will do what it wants, there is nothing that AE can do to stop it. But I will give you a scenario for you.

AA can attract pilots with 1500 hours when the new rules go into effect, great for AA.
AA has 5 feeders, great for AA.
All feeders have to hire the same pilot with 1500 hours as AA has to.
When the retirements kick in and there is a major exodus from the feeders to mainlines, who will replace those pilots. For that matter, how can a feeder attract them.
Is AA going to give flowthrough rights to all feeders to AA, so they can have an attracting point for the applicant. Remember, if the feeder has no pilots, there is no feed to AA. Before you get that hard one, AA will not replace the feeder even after BK you will still be more expensive than the feeders.

So, lets see, JB has taken over the BOS flying for AA from AE, and APA got nothing.
Alaska is increasing there codeshare with AA and what did APA get, nothing.
West Jet, AE is pulling out of markets in Canada and being replaced by West Jet ( an AA codeshare partner).
JB has taken over the SJU market and APA got nothing.

Seems more than likely AA will have a few feeders (maybe) but definitely an increased amount of codesharing and route transfer to code share partners from the great AA.

New colors for the oneworld alliance. All aircraft in the fleet painted in pearl color and the word in big bold lettering on the side, ONEWORLD and in small print somewhere near the lav operated by Iberia, on domestic US routes.

Bud, you better look in your own backyard for help rather than coming here to pass on the fear and intimidation.