Originally Posted by
rickt86
Your not seeing the grand scheme here. Ultimately 50% of aag mainline new hire slots will forever goto eagle! now add 25% to psa and maybe 15% to pdt. Suddenly the only off the street hires will be interns military and the friends and family plan.
Delta and even maybe united follow suit and suddenly the guys not at the airlines with the flow are in huge trouble. They are going to do all they can to prop up the low cost regional market as long as they can. If airline management forces everyone in to the cradle to grave model, they can put off the shortage even longer. Keep the musical chairs going in their favor?
Interesting, that is basically the rumor being floated by lower level management at Endeavor right now... Big announcement supposed to arrive beginning of April... No chance of any kind of pay or benefit increase but "what else will get the apps
flowing in?"