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The AA pilots will not benefit from a merger with US Aiways, they rather stay alone. AA pilots are using US Airways to out pressure on AA managment, with that being said if AMR managment destroys their contract and US Airways looks better then a merger is beneficial. Look how they are doing another round of direct negotiations mid next week and Friday will have mediated negotiations once again, these were agreed by both parties. Both parties have said they made progress in some areas and it will come down to an 11th hr deal and SCOPE will be the deciding factor. All we can do is hope that SCOPE remains strong!
I'm not going to comment on the "leverage" aspects of the AA union/U labor agreements, but regardless of any TA with AMR management, it will NOT negate the desire to merge with U. You see, 7500+ AA pilots (out of under 8,000) believe that AMR's stand alone business plan as-is, which is basically amounting to shifting a lot of AA domestic to RJ's at the tombstones and thus increasing flying by 20% there (most of it NOT AA) and adding lie-back seats in 777 first-class in 2 years (others already have this now), isn't going to provide a future for AA employees and is still simply limping along due to exessive kicking-the-can.
A viable business plan by a management team that has demonstrated they can actually execute success is what's needed. Most pilots here would rather NOT merge with U, but most anaysts believe it necessary. It's clear to me even AMR management has no problem with a U merger, they just want to exit BK FIRST (in control), get beaucoup stock shares and THEN do the merger so THEY can ca$h-in. A
FAT exit payoff and mucho stock and off they go.....happy as clams. Only one place to get that money though and that's from the employees (again).
The bottom line, is that this whole U merger business is FAR from simple negotiation sabre-rattling.