Don't listen to buddies8. Just look at his short post history. More than 1/2 them are anti-American Eagle posts. He has some grudge with them.

Just incase though:
Americans retirement numbers (next 10 years)
01/01/2007 - 12/31/2007 281
01/01/2008 - 12/31/2008 402
01/01/2009 - 12/31/2009 405
01/01/2010 - 12/31/2010 363
01/01/2011 - 12/31/2011 318
01/01/2012 - 12/31/2012 312
01/01/2013 - 12/31/2013 388
01/01/2014 - 12/31/2014 478
01/01/2015 - 12/31/2015 571
01/01/2016 - 12/31/2016 628

Oh, and every year after that is 700+. So there is no question there will be hiring at American in the near future.
Your MD-80 replacement statement is B.S. You have no proof of that, and it is an idiotic strategy at best.

At the bare minimum, 348 pilots will flow-back to Eagle. I believe the 394 will flow-up also regardless of the letter 3 thing cause they have AA seniority numbers. For the other 250, that is in question. And your average captains slot point assumes that NO ONE, not a single person will leave Eagle for something better (American, United, Delta, Continental, Northwest, Southwest, UPS, FedEx, ABX, Astar, Atlas, AirTran, Frontier, Alaska...).