Originally Posted by
CLT Guy
Is this true?
American Eagle's contract originally had a section which specified that American Eagle could not transfer aircraft to another airline without transferring the pilots with the airplanes to the other airline.
In 2011, Eagle pilots voted to remove the section governing the transfer of pilot with the aircraft in return for a stronger scope clause.
As soon as that vote concluded and the section removed - every single one of Eagle's aircraft - every Embraer, every Canadair, was transferred from American Eagle Airlines to American Airlines. The only aircraft that American Eagle and now today Envoy own today are the Saabs sitting in storage.
Is this really true?
If so, that is the basis of all of this whipsaw. That was the key to setting all of this up. You sold your own airplanes for scope clause and are trying to blame PSA.
Yes.
Everything's true except, I can't remember with all the shananagins(sp?) that were occurring at the time, if we were able to actually vote on it. It may have been one of those items the previous MEC just signed off on.
And yes, the way it was worded every American Eagle pilot at the time would have instantly been transferred onto the AA seniority list.