Originally Posted by
7576FO
scope to assure us they won't turn Eagle or the spin off into a domestic beheamoth. Like UAL has a 900nm leg length with UAX. Something like that.
American Eagle CRJ-700
LAX-IAH = 1,200nm
ORD-SLC = 1086nm
ORD-ELP = 1070nm
LAX-OKC = 1,036 nm
ORD-ABQ = 980nm
ORD-SAT = 900nm
LGA-MSP = 887nm
ORD-AUS = 850nm
ORD-IAH = 806nm
ORD-DEN = 773nm
LAX-DEN = 750nm
ORD-MSY = 728nm
American Eagle ERJ
LGA-XNA = 997nm
MIA-PIT = 880nm
Here is just a few that I can think on top of my head! They won't turn Eagle into a behemoth, they already have... And lets not forget the guys that wear blue shirts who carry a substantial number of your passengers, like BOS-DFW & JFK-BOS. You guys have fought hard and we commend you for it but the senior pilots are about to sell the junior guys down the river so that AMR can exit bankruptcy and they can make retirement plans and leave us a pile of sh!t to deal with and a COE who wants to outsource everything he gets his hands on!
"Tom Horton is no friend of labor. His tenure at AT&T is highlighted by the outsourcing of 4,600 overseas. It was only after Horton left AT&T and returned to AMR that the CWA was able to return 2,000 of those jobs to the U.S. Why this matters is because Horton was the proponent behind joint business initiatives with British Airways and Iberia and the code-share with JetBlue"
We Want Our Money Back !!! | Q & A
"From 1998 to 2000, he was vice president responsible for the airline’s Europe business, based in London"
Thomas Horton - Forbes
"We appreciate Tom agreeing to take on this role at this time. He worked hand-in-glove in alliance matters with Gerard Arpey during Gerard's period of tenure as oneworld Chairman and has played a pivotal role in strengthening our alliance through the significant deepening of cooperation between American and so many of our other member airlines in recent years.
PR Newswire (http://s.tt/1sil4)"
American Airlines' Tom Horton Elected oneworld Chairman -- NEW YORK, Dec. 15 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
"As AT&T’s chief financial officer, he led the review of options culminating with a 2005 takeover by SBC Communications Corp."
AMR Insider Horton Brings Deal-Making History at AT&T to Airline CEO Role - Bloomberg
You know what this man is here to do, there might be smoke and mirrors, but you know what he tells you in the Jerwires are pure lies and he is here to drive the unions to the ground and cash in. It is what he has done everywhere else he has been in.