Originally Posted by
Jersdawg
Your 2nd to last sentence is my point exactly. I just don't think we are quite on the same wavelength here. The PP group won't even start flowing til mid next year at this rate. What is to keep people here from 2017-2020 if those LCC contracts are better than AA's? It's a simple business decision, and everyone will be hiring. Why stay at Envoy for the flow if one can find pastures way greener than the one at AA? As retirements pick up, the jobs simply won't take the legwork to acquire they used to or that they do now. (Please note I'm not saying Delta is going to start hiring over the phone, merely that five job fairs and 40 hrs a week volunteering plus F-14 time (also exaggerating somewhat) won't be necessary anymore)
My points about Envoy pilots resistance to vacating involve lateral moves to other regionals. As it stands now, most PP pilots, particularly current F/O's will go now to any decent LCC's that makes an employment offer. It's been my contention AAG will make a consolidation move involving Envoy by later next year when the PP agreement becomes the new flow mechanism, but Envoy (not AAG) is just concentrating on the now. LCC's (or legacies for that matter) are not gutting Envoy yet and for now, AAG/Envoy will only do what they think will keep the engine from seizing and nothing more, hence these schemes that do virtually nothing for present Envoy pilots and are all geared to just kicking the can for awhile, which BTW Mr. Pool seems all in to help.
My condolences on that last painful point.