Originally Posted by
fastsail
There are also a about 1100 Eagle pilots with rights to Mainline. This is an arbitrated decision that has to be honored. All remaining Eagle pilots were offered a guaranteed job at AA with no interview or medical. Again, it is contractual between AA and the Eagle pilots.
Only the bankruptcy judge can null this, which he would need a good reason to do.
Actually, 253 have AA numbers and 824 have possible hiring preference via Nicolau like you said.
Those hiring rights kick-in after all furloughed pilots from both carriers are offered recall, the 253 are offered transfer and aside from being metered on a ratio with new-hires from the street, they'd be further watered down due to no hiring preference from the U side of the combined carrier.
Bottom line, is it will be MANY years before even the most senior of the 824 see themselves in a future mainline class (that's IF Parker doesn't find some excuse to weasel out of it).
Eagle may have long melted to half its size (or smaller) over those intervening years. I'd not count to heavily on the 824 provision.