Originally Posted by RJ Pilot

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1-truth that AE never had a fleet plan.(this alpa knows already)

If this is true then the company and the union both negotiated in bad faith as they both stated that there was a plan but could not disclose it as they negotiated it. For months they have been saying that the fleet plan is not affected by a merger and that our hiring and management decisions at AE are taking into account a possible merger.

2-the 824 might not happen.

This is a ruling by an arbitrator and AMR, US AIRWAYS, APA and USAPA can ***** all they want but this is not a little contract amendment or LOA. This is an arbitrator ruling that sets the ground for a divestiture, sale, spin off, merger and sorts. Also the 824 ruling states that all four parties involved must come up with an agreement in writing and that has been signed by AMR, APA, AE and ALPA for almost a year. How do you think AMR is going to get out of it?

3-merger with another regional to be named.

Could be a possibility as everything is on the table, but why would AMR spend so much money into AE to just merge it with someone else, why would AE continue to mirror AA to then just go elsewhere? How would AMR divestify their feed by giving the pilots and most of the flying to RAH? It would make more sense to keep the pilots at AE and keep the flying in house while keeping all the pilots for AMR flying instead of merging them with RAH and now splitting all the pilots to fly for your competitors.