Originally Posted by
PilotJ3
The only way I could agree on this is if AAG do a list by Company Seniority. And people will flow according to their company seniority, not by their WO seniority.
So, the company would facilitate the uniting of the three WO pilot groups that would ostensibly make them stronger against the their management's and/or AAG ?
In all likelihood, this will occur anyway, but at the behest of the AAG, not three fragmented pilot groups and when all their ducks are lined up. In that case, they would negate any increased strength by a long-term contract that supersedes the present separate contracts (including the Envoy PP) and agreement by all groups to flow at a nominal rate and by seniority, but that seniority will be a by-product of arbitration (SLI). This is what occurred in the past with the BizEx acquisition. As Envoy shrinks, I could see the merger of Piedmont which brings some very senior pilots, but a smaller group EXACTLY like the Simmons/BizEx merger and then run 2 WO's or perhaps merge all three. The other option is to play whack a mole like now by jacking around flying and assets as each carrier shrinks at different rates.
Considering ALL regionals will shrink as the pool of available pilots continues to evaporate (which is already now a puddle), it's not a matter of if, but how fast the AA WO's collapse and then morph. On a related note, AA is in the analysts doghouse with a share price target of a feeble $19 making all those billions in stock buy back lost money and it's becoming increasingly obvious AA may be becoming another house of cards with grossly excessive debt and falling revenue buttressed by bad decisions. It's just my opinion, but hinging your future on AA as THE place to be stability and compensation wise may be a mistake. I think another of the bad decisions in play that has yet to flop is AAG's doubling down on RJ's as opposed to Delta and United moving in the other direction where there are future resources.
We could be in the beginning to middle stages of another trip to the past and AA's past is very troubled indeed.