Originally Posted by ORDinary

Don't forget: we have furlough protection for 95% of pilots on the list as of merger completion, and if they furlough they can't meter our flowthrough, and they know that anyone they furlough will be gone forever, and they admitted during negotiations that they wouldn't be able to furlough anybody no matter how we voted.

There could, however, be stagnation, as attrition picks up (and it will). Junior captains like me could lose our seats, it could really hurt. And in theory after a couple of years' worth of attrition, we could be small enough for them to "Comair" us, as they threatened to do. In theory. Still well worth the no vote.

I'm just guessing, but I think they'll try to give PSA our 47 CRJs, and try to give Mesa the 175 order. A little less sure about Mesa, but PSA has shown they'll fly anyone's planes for any price. The real question is how long until each airline fails to staff them. Our management told us they plan to staff flying at PSA with us--they said they would attempt to lure our FOs away by offering street captains or by setting up a flowthrough to AA at PSA. Most of our FOs would have no problem bailing Eagle but are ****ed enough to want to stay away from PSA. I'm sure they'd get a handful, but not much of the 800+ net pilots they need for the 30 new CRJs they are getting (that were offered to us w/ a b-scale and rejected) and our 47. With Republic parking their American Connection E140s, I'm wondering how quickly they can afford to shrink us anyway. Time will tell.