Originally Posted by
CaseTractor
LASA guys, how many (best guess percentage) are even considering sticking with the company and going ERJ? What are people saying on the line?
Is the company counting on a certain amount of LASA to come over, or can the status quo be held with just LXJT and normal hiring (and attrition) on their side.
Is the whole plan of survival based on an unrealistic expectation? Or is staffing not that bad and no room for LASA to come over anyway?
The conference call this summer seemed like a smoke and mirrors game and the promised "monthly conference calls" has certainly not come to fruition.
Attrition among the FO's I have flown with in DFW is off the chart. I know 2 FO's just left for DL, 1 Spirit, and at least 7 to Envoy with several others interviewing soon. An FO (and any CA with 10+ yrs left) would be crazy to stay on the LASA side.
Way better opportunities than being forced over to the ERJ side are available. If I wouldn't have been able to make the move up, I would have left for Envoy early next year rather than going to the ERJ side. (Big bonus, quick upgrade, and NO desire to stick around and help inc.).
IMO, LASA will not be able to staff the additional 22 700's (unless 20 year and under CA's are willing to downgrade [which I don't know why they would]). The 20 AA 700's at DFW will eventually go to SKYW (when the contract is up in 2019) because of the expense of keeping such a small fleet. XJT will be a strictly 145 operator for UAL. (At least until SKYW can staff it, or attrition becomes so great over there that it can't survive).