Originally Posted by
Dunkin
The most ironic thing about all of this is (besides all of the Envoy chest thumpers) is that Delta created this whole 12/4 mess and is now having to give out $30k to keep their cheap wholly owned airline staffed while AA now has all three wholly owns on the 12/4 scale that will give them millions of savings compared to Delta and United very year. So Delta basically created an opportunity for AA to have a massive regional cost advantage over them.......interesting.
It seems like a no win situation. If it didn't pass Envoy's future was in jeopardy, now that it did pass the future is still going to be a tough one. If you can't get new pilots in the door (which is hard to do with a sub-par contract) then you don't flow pilots to AA and in the end you eventually shut down. Does the agreement have anything that would attract a new hire?