Originally Posted by
Wingtips
Keep your ears open the next few days about AA putting in a huge order for planes at EAGLE, 70+ seats, with no regard to AA scope. They will get the planes and let the court deal with it once on property.
You whine about accuracy and then this ?
First of all, any order for aircraft would have to be approved by the court. Confirming an order prior to the court granting AMR's 1113 motion against the APA would be a bit presumptuous and quite obnoxious, don't you think ?
Specifically, AMR is right now trying to convince the bankruptcy court that they are bargaining in good faith, but unilaterally confirming orders in violation of the contracts still in place by ordering aircraft they don't have legal right to do doesn't bolster that concept of bargaining in good faith, so it would be surprising they would be that arrogant and stupid. I do acknowledge the high-fivers on EL and TA are foaming at the mouth at the possibility though.
Lastly, orders like this take time and AMR presented Eagle ALPA with term sheet only weeks ago that limits pay scales to 76-seats, not the 88-seats that the high-fivers on EL and TA are claiming. If AMR was negotiating with manufactuers for E-190's or CRJ-1000's for Eagle, they'd have included an 88-seat pay scale they could get on that 1113, instead of vague conditional language they'd have to get further approval for later.
You're the only junior F/O at Eagle I know that is convinced she has everything figured out.