Originally Posted by
proletariatav8r
To step back and summarize just some of the SLI issues that may have already been covered; US Air East is hiring while the West has 49 pilots on furlough and still stand as a separate list respectfully. AA has 1,685 on furlough, 650 have yet to be offered a recall and most of which are former TWA. All Eagle pilots hired prior to Oct 2011 have contractual flow up rights. US East’s most junior CA has a 1999 DOH and west has a 1998 DOH, while AA’s most junior CA has a 1992 DOH.
Then there’s the APA, (who used to be ALPA until the schism in 1963 when they broke off from ALPA), USAPA which doesn’t talk to US management and remains a group whose credibility is suspect by many, and the former loyal ALPA camp from AWA.
How on God’s green earth are all these groups, with valid, time fought positions, combine to produce a united pilot group working together in harmony ensuring an efficient operation? There will be more fences than a Chicago stockyard.
First one correction; There is no agreement that gives Eagle pilots hired prior to 10/11 "flow-up" rights to AA. 253 do and another 850 or so MIGHT and the bottom 2000 have nothing.
Yes, it sounds like a mess. Considering AA and U will almost certainly merge, this stockyard airline will have to somehow figure a way to compete in the future with hopelessly damaged service providers.
Whoever inherits that job will have to be a flawless magician and I don't think he will be. Of the 3 future "mega-carriers", my bet says as AA/U is the last to exit BK, it will be the first to re-enter it within 5 years.