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So what you are saying is that we should have voted yes to undercut those airlines trying to undercut us? Is that you meant? Where I come from we call that "the race to the bottom".
You haven't prevented a race to the bottom. AA will award flying to another Regional with much lower costs and no career progression.
That Regional will stumble over themselves to accept that flying. The pilots will pretend to be "reluctantly" performing those flights while really excited at flying an American Eagle E-175. Most if not all of your junior FOs will bail for these other Regionals who are getting the new flying. Your mid-level FOs will stagnate while junior Captains will displace back to FO.
So what have you accomplished, exactly? Had this been voted through you would have had AA on the hook for 170 aircraft MINIMUM which is far beyond any fleet guarantee that any Regional has.
If/When staffing became an issue AA would have had no choice but to raise first year pay.
So again, what have you accomplished? I know many of you are real giddy right now. It always feels good to poke management in the eye. But you need to realize the concepts of "unity" don't exist in the way you hope.