Originally Posted by
highflyer0685
Who cares? If you go to a regional now it's going to be about a decade until it's your turn to flow. You'll probably wind up leaving before that for a different major. AA should be an interesting pilot group a few years down the road when it's made up of all PSA, PDT, Envoy scum. AA will be able to put out a TA that lowers pay to $15/hr and it'll pass.
Yeah let's put PDT at 500 pilots by the time anyone off the street is in class and has a hire date--so as I understand, that'd be about 4 pilots/per month flowing?
Assuming AA hires every single month for the next decade starting January 2015, it'll take a decade for PDT's flow to put seniority #500 in class at AA--and IIRC, voluntary bypass and washouts do count towards the quota.
My main concern at PDT would be: "what if AA just used PDT as pawns to leverage concessions/fear out of Envoy?" Whlie PDT's flow letter remains in force even if they don't get the Embraers, it won't matter if they wind down the Dash-8 program and shut down the company.
Believe me--I looked long and hard at making a lateral transfer to PDT, but I don't think it's worth it to anyone not on property when that agreement was signed (unless you live in one of PDT's outstation bases!).