Originally Posted by
Bootleg
Hmmm. You two little boys are stupid.
I'll sum up my meaning with 3 words and there's no conspiracy or theory. Just past history and fact.
City pair duplication.
You two kids need to put down the hair gel and video games and take a look back at some previous mergers, check out how that went down. What I mean is this. Both American airlines and u s air fly flights from some of the same cities to some of the same cities. Which they will no longer continue to do after the seniority list gets fully merged and implimented. Don't think so? I'll refer you to the delta/nwa merger. Now suddenly after cutting out the duplication they have extra pilots. If AAG is fat a few hundred or a thousand pilots what will that do to the flow numbers?
--------0-------- flow.
But you guys already figured that out right?
Well...if you remembered one of the things that drove the merger was that between AA and USAir are not many overlapping routes.
Relax man. Everything will be alright...
Have you seen how many pilots will retire between both airlines next year? Take a guess...more than 400. At the end there won't be extra pilots.
Have you take that into consideration? How about 2017 retirements?