Again, unless theyre going to rid themselves of 50 seat flying out of PHL and CLT they will still need PHL and CLT chief pilots and a training department to keep their pilots current. Management postions like presidents/VPs of flight ops are not going to be trimmed- management positions are the last to go, like it or not.

Dispatchers and mechanics are still needed too, as long as we are still flying airplanes. Axing piedmont flight ops makes 0 sense if youre going to re hire pilots to fly the same planes out of the same bases under a slightly different banner, and still have a PHL CP and CLT CP, running the same Sims im the training department for the same capacity.

Let's just be real and say that AA is going to do whatever they want, and all WO employees are along for the ride. It's comforting to think that AA will favor one over the other, especially if you're working for the one that wins out, but its going to come down to dollars and cents.