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What
Pay to pay!?!? They can't get enought people at the regionals while offering bonuses.
Even if they re fleet the adjustment will take place on seniority basis only, the pay rates are not part of the adjustment and a 76 seater at eagle would be flown for 65 seat wages. AMR has the ammunition to adjust the longevity at eagle to the lowest two regionals with 150 aircraft or so. So with pinnacle having only a 12 year step and republic likely to have the least amount if lifers out of all the larger regionals the current contract allows AMR to have likely the lowest captain cost as far as senior folks go.
My point is, don't expect them to wait for the current CBA schedule to do that. The promise of shiny new metal (or not) will mean they can accelerate that plan.