Originally Posted by
Bzzt
That is true, like I said it's not a career plan. If you want to work for AA you'd be there much sooner at a non wholly owned. However, if this thing passes the first 30 of every month are eagle. That's not going to leave a lot of seats for guys at other regionals.
Management may be *******s, but they're not stupid. This agreement fixes their longevity problem (that they caused) and also helps them attract new hires with the flow program. All the while they can advertise to the pilot group that a stronger flow is a "get" for us. If it played out as written it probably is, but few things have played out as written in the last 15 years.
I hear what you are saying. One thing though, they are taking quite a risk if your analysis is correct that it will attract new hires to the program.
While it may attract a supply of pilots for the next 6 months, after that, there really isn't any new pilots in great quantity in the pilot training pipeline. American Eagle might flow 30 per month to American Airlines only to find there is nobody to replace them with- an issue that isn't really new to the regional airlines these last 2 months.
In the end, I think the best bet for the pilot group would be to simply not fly these large airplanes at a regional. I mean why add another rung that needs climbing before you can get to the major? For that matter you may see the major airline take over that flying in the future anyway if there aren't enough regional pilots to fly said airplanes.