Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
Have you guys been hearing the rumors that 2017 will be 100% flows to AA from the wholly owneds? One of our union guys was saying something about that recently and it was also mentioned in a union email. I know we (PSA) go back to the table this summer to talk about increasing our flow, and I know you guys are supposed to meter down to 35% of AA classes after a while. I'm wondering if you guys don't stay at 50% flows for longer than they originally said and us and Piedmont go up a little bit.
I know AAG is aware of all the wholly owneds having issues hiring. And yet all they have ventured forth are increased new hire bonuses which aren't likely to work that well given what is being offered by other regionals. Maybe an increase in the flow and a ton of movement combined with added airframes and increased flying at it's wholly owneds is the ace they have up their sleeve?
A lot of possibilities are on the table considering it's starting to sink in there just isn't anyone out there to scoop up off the street (at least not in any meaningful numbers). That being said, most pilots still won't jump ship to get at the end of a conga line to AA that has such a history of flim-flammary and most Envoy pilots wont jump ship unless its to another legacy or a decent LCC. The latest push by the chief procurer here is that pilots who leave for decent LCC's are making a mistake as they know they will never convince anyone of passing on Delta or United and very, very few will jump laterally to another regional no matter how bad it gets at Envoy, so the only internal target left is the LCC consideration.
Of course, that won't do much for luring in pilots from other regionals (AKA "poaching") as most simply won't start over in this hellish segment of the industry for questionable promises based on inflated and optimistic projections. The end result will continue to be the shrinking of the regional industry itself and not surprisingly Envoy as well.