Originally Posted by
ag386
My belief is that lack of new hires on top of a few flows here and there combined with attrition already year to date has the company's undivided attention. Believe me, they will play hard ball and will bring the union in and dictate something along the lines of, "if you want the flow to continue in some form, you WILL play ball." I think that is likely to happen in the 4th quarter of this year. It could possibly go into the 1st quarter of 2017, but I believe things will be critical before then.
Will play ball how? Accept better pay rates in lieu of flow? Hardly makes sense given that's the crown jewel of their recruitment tactics. And people will just leave anyway be it for LCCs, other Legacies, etc.
I do get the sense that they're waiting for some catastrophe at another regional where they hope they can scoop up the pilots, but the fact is many won't want to start over at another regional.