Originally Posted by Mason32

Your vote changes nothing. This is how they plan to staff the regional flying. Envoy will be the entry level position for AA. The company will not even need to negotiate with our guys (APA) for numbers either. If all hiring comes from Envoy, then your date of hire at Envoy ensures your place on the AA-APA seniority list. The info comes from the same sources as everything else I've told you.

Take it for what it's worth. There are many more planes in the horizon than these 60/90. You can fully expect that they do plan Envoy to be 280-300 planes. That doesn't mean they won't give a few dozen away to other operators in the process. It will buy them time and punish you for a no vote.

My advice. Vote no. The long term gains outweigh the short term pains.

I think your MEC should have held their ground; but I do understand their reasons for what they did. It was a unique solution. It allowed them to send it for a pilot vote and lobby against it at the same time. Pretty smart actually. It also bought you guys three more weeks to hopefully realize the industry has changed; and you're in the pilots seat.