Originally Posted by
diva
AAG will eventually have to acquire another regional to increase staffing. They've said they will themselves. Now rumor over at RAH is AAG is in talks to buy Shuttle America. I totally see this happening and it's a great business strategy. They've already got a MIA base now starting to fly the 175's down towards SJU area where Eagle use to have a base with similar routes. Does that mean Dan Garton (RAH bod) will be back? Is the on a special assignment like Winkley? Can they merge them (teamsters) with our seniority or will they be stapled on bottom? Any thoughts. ..
Or they continue to contract it out to PSA and MESA who will attract new hires with short upgrade times. As they grow , their upgrade time remains at a low allowing more word of mouth spread of the short upgrade time, further increasing the number of people applying. As they draw from other carriers those shrink and their pilots bail for PSA.
Lather rinse and repeat. AAG wants flying in house but still can't get away from cheap contracts.