Originally Posted by
Mason32
You are looking at it completely wrong. They were sold a crappy contract in the late 90's while being told they'd all be at AA within a couple of years. Sound familiar? They waited 13. If it had not been for 9-11 the AE-Envoy contract would have been the laughing stock of the industry. In fact, the flow stopped BEFORE 9-11 when AMR began buying other airlines.
You only asked how it turned out for them and implied it was bad. And it was not, just answering your question. You also said what good are numbers if a bomb went off. Well, it would probably work out like it did last time. Waiting it out and flow at the beginning of the next hiring wave while none of the other regional contract will improve, like youve pointed out, due to the catastrophe. So it will work out good.