Originally Posted by
capt707
As far as the pay rates go, specifically the E190. You can thank AA for their crap rates, that's how pattern bargaining goes, which lead us to only a small rate increase. The rest I agree with you on the E195/CSeries/A321 stuff.
Point of order: no, AA is not responsible for our low E190 rates. WE were the launch customer and set essentially a B scale rate. Everyone else had JetBlue to thank when they patterned 190 rates off of us. Throw in the fact that no one else has them, except US Air then AA with 20, and less than 2% of their pilot group flies it and can bid off of it almost immediately. Oh and it’s getting parked soon. Bottom line, no other airline has any reason to use negotiating capital on that plane’s rates. We are the reason the rates are so low. And we just set the bar way low for the E195-E2, a newer, bigger plane.