Originally Posted by
PapaMike
This is soley a recruiting tool not a retention tool. Endeavor's is more of a rentention payment as well as recruiting tool because it might make CA's think twice before hopping to Allegiant or some other ULCC/LCC allowing them to keep more pilots on property and grow the airline.
With that said it IS something. They will come back to the table when it doesn't amount to what the thought it would.
But likely at a MUCH more opportune time for them. The longer they can string this out, the stronger the other WO's get and thus the less (if anything) they'll have to offer Envoy pilots in the future when they may have to. IMO, it would have been in Envoy pilot's best interests to not assist them with anything while they conduct themselves toward this pilot group as they have been and control the time line to the inevitable crisis. Now, it's just more likely that when that crisis does occur, other factors like completion of AAG merger synergies like AA SLI, hub/domicile moves and fleet shifting will allow the real long-term regional plan to be unveiled and Envoy may be instantly over-staffed then.
In other words, I think it likely the Envoy pilots by virtue of once again being played will have ended up getting 25 cents on the dollar in return, instead of much more value by moving the crisis time line forward...............well, actually only half get the 25 cents, the rest bupkus.
