there will be metering to aa for the 824 and any pilot after them regardless of what f/o winkley says. in order not to meter they would have to be overstaffed by 500 pilots to ensure the flying is covered`at eagle.

want to take one of the two fms/fmc's out of the airplane, great now we have one mel'd and fly normal navigation and refuse/unable to take short cuts or direct routing burn the fuel. fuel monitoring, suck it all you want, it is going to get burned one way or another. therevwill be no savings.

fleet plan plan on 150, if they want more give it to skw, ejt or rah. as it is we are taking a couple of cities back from skw in lax because they cant carry the loads, and we are being forced to fly charter flights out of dfw to cover the ejt flying because they cant crew the flights and rah in chicago, well that is to start in august and is to be another amr cluster.

as for the original posting for this thread, what ever was posted was propaganda, what if's and maybes. sounds like a teenager trying to justify there stupidity, just plain amr bull.

question, if eagle is having difficulty hiring, which it is, explain to me why would not the other regionals not be in the same situation if not worse? the divesting of eagle flying will not be covered without extreme difficulty by other regionals.

eventually the mainlines will have to up the payments to the regional so they can pay regional pilots more just have the flying covered. mainline always has the option to do the flying itself, but is not.

pure f/o winkley, amr bull, the only positive in the original posting was winkley, garton and the rest of the stooges will be gone to the street.