Two good friends of mine who actually still work here finally upgraded to the Saab after almost 8 years to only discover that the Saabs are soon to be parked in 2008. After just 100 hours as PIC 121 and 8 years, back to FO they go. Besides, Eagle still has flowbacks, AA has 2000+ on furlough and the flowthrough agreement dies in May 2008.

In the end, only 100+ guys ever flowed to American from 1997 when their 16 year contract was signed, 600+ FOs from AA flowed back to guaranteed RJ Captain positions from 2001 to 2007. One has to ask themselves the point of working at a place like Eagle beyond 1000 hours of jet time? Unless you like the idea of working for AMR, oh wait, AMR is selling Eagle, so you can just work for Eagle now, worse!