The crazy thing October is one of the slowest flying months block hour wise of the entire year.

AA is kinda shooting themselves in the foot here. On one hand I realize they want to beef up and staff their WO's but on the other hand they can't afford to let AWAC continue to cancel their flying due to lack of staffing that they essentially are contributing to (by hiring all the AWAC F/Os to PSA and Piedmont).

Upper management at both companies isn't stupid, they know exactly what is going on.