APA support of Eagle/Envoy
At Eagle we are in the middle of a grievance for Eagle/Enovy restricting the flow of our guys to new hire positions at AA. One of the possible solutions proposed and agreeable to 3 out of the 4 parties is just to give AA seniority numbers to the group of 824 pilots part of the last grievance. However it is APA that is the only group unwilling to move forward with this. Other than you guys wanting to get your squadron buddies hired, what is the problem with granting seniority numbers to the bottom of the list for the 824 guys that will be at AA no matter what eventually. It protects fellow AAG pilots from taking even more of a hit with career progression instead of some GO-Jet mesa Skywest PSA ... pilot getting hired as part of the 50/50 ratio which is not happening for us currently so we are losing even more seniority than we already have. Just to give you guys an idea that the bottom of that 824 if they continue to restrict it to 20/month instead of 50% and AA increase class size up to 60 and US airways continues to hire that pilot could end up over 800 numbers junior than where he should have been had the company honored the 50% ratio. That has a huge impact on QOL and career earning. All the 824 guys will have been part of AMR for over 15 years by the time they flow, every single one of them. So why is APA against this?