Originally Posted by
Karloffstall
quality of flow candidates aside (which has been mentioned that flow airlines are the home of the deplorable with no other option for a major except to hold a golden ticket).... the flow is only going to continue to strengthen AA managements position to give AA pilots subpar contracts and treatment because such a giant percentage of pilots didnt actually earn a job at AA.
contract negotiations will likely go like this...
AA pilots:give us industry standard
AA management: youre lucky to be here, you'll get nothing
No, more like this: " we're not caving into terrible LTD language like the American boys did before us, and the profit sharing. No deal"
Doug Parker was wetting his pants for the last merger, a fact lost on the APA.
At least the regional flows all pretty much had better scheduling rules than the Native AA. The rescheduling at this airline is out of control.
I believe just the opposite will happen. The regional flows will start to steer the contracts away from the Legacy AA mindset. The mindset that voted profitsharing away, when the economy was set to take off. That was an unbelievably stupid move.