Originally Posted by
Cujo665
Well, they shouldn't feel that way. You're timeline is a bit off. We were never in negotiation for those jets. AMR's first B-scale offer was the summer of 2013. The Ejets had already been awarded to RAH by Tom Horton during the bankrupcty.
Would they have had come here if Horton had not sent them to RAH during the BK? Probably yes; but you can't hold the RAH guys to blame for what our jackass management did during bankrucptcy.
We were promised those aircraft by AMR in 2012 if we signed the bankruptcy contract, remember? Tony and his administration did a HUGE disservice to this pilot group by not emphasizing just how imminent a merger with US Airways was. We should have known we were negotiating with the wrong people.
The October 2012 contract with AMR was the one that had "furlough protection" in lieu of an actual fleet plan. But it was more than suggested that we would be getting the E175s with that new contract to begin replacing our 145s. Then 3 months later AMR strikes a deal with Republic for those same aircraft. Slap in the face and knife in the back.