Originally Posted by Dolphinflyer

The TWA guys probably didn't mention to you that their former flying is 95% gone. There is probably enough left to support 75 former TWA Captains. Is that a problem or concern for them? Nope. The more vocal ones say they still deserve nearly 1100 Captain slots.

After AirCal and Reno were bought and dismantled, the TWA SLI was set up to protect AA pilots from the disaster in case AA shut down the TWA system.

Guess what? AMR shut down the TWA system. Even if they kept it as a moderate size hub, the TWA guys would have the fastest upgrades in the system.

Every STL bid line for the last 10 years has consisted of 70+ hours of flying AA has done for 30 years and 10 hours of former TWA routes.

To put it perspective, it's like Parker buying a AA consisting of DFW and MIA. He then shuts down DFW and MIA flying. The remaining AA guys fly all their trips out of CLT, PHX and DCA and then scream like banshees that they are getting mistreated.