American treat their wholly owned pilots a lot worse than Delta treats Endeavor Pilots. Sure there isn’t a flow here, sure AA WO pilots get much better travel benefits. But their pay, their contract, their reserve rules and the overall happiness of pilots I saw in my shortish time there is night and day.
Everyone thinks the grass is greener, so far Endeavor has treated me much better. Never once has Endeavor tried to put themselves ahead of my son when he was sick.
AA has flow, but I don’t see them being able to flow enough pilots to keep up with AA’s need and of course their are provisions within at least the Envoy CBA to block movement if they can’t cover the flying. Once they hit the “unprotected pilots” hired after 2014/14.