Yeah, I'm a douche and I hope everyone in the world except for me loses their job </sarcasm> I made this remark before I knew it was at the expense of AE. I was under the impression this was ADDITIONAL flying for AA, not a transfer from one regional to the other. Maybe I was naive.

I understand you're lashing out at me emotionally so I'm not gonna get my feathers ruffled, but the only reason I have a job is because I got lucky. This industry has NO crystal ball. It's just luck and timing. I was offered an interview at ComAir and ASA at the exact same time. For some reason I chose ASA and many of my friends chose ComAir. No one could have imagined what was to happen. I got lucky.

ExpressJet didn't necessarily underbid anybody. It's no secret AA is trying to spin off/draw down AE. XJT has NEVER bid on anything under cost and as regionals go, we're pretty expensive with a VERY senior pilot group (30 year captains and 6 year FOs). We did have the airplanes already (currently flying for Delta) and their contract is up, AA had someplace for us to put them. We're like a desperate college frat guy, stick it wherever we can.

Oh, P.S. it seems Eagle is hiring? Displacements suck, but looks like no one is losing their job. I feel less badly about that.