Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
IMHO, AA, DAL means:
- Typical 20% reduction from 20,000 pilot list is 4,000 pilots (pure swag)
- Lots of network overlap (which we will be told does not really exist)
- Too Many Hubs (SFO, SJO, MEM, CVG, RDU ... and to some extent JFK and LAX realignment)
- Delta pilots are near (or at, depending on who you ask) industry pay scales, meaning:
There is not a pile of money to buy labor peace while entering another decade of stagnation and potentially massive furloughs
Whatever money there is, on a percentage basis, will do more for the group that is acquired
- Recovering AA is ALPA's advent event.
That's the thing, if we got AA's JFK operation, how in the world is the DOJ/DOT not going to go after our new found strong position in LGA? Hell, they went after us demanding for divestitures just because of what we have now, imagine a significant increase in JFK and LGA at the same time?
I didn't see anything in this last debacle that makes me think we can have both.