Originally Posted by
Pony Express
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.
Going to be interesting. United came out and said the future of the 50 seat doesn’t look good. If AA would follow, they already accelerated the retirement of PSA’s remaining 200s, PDT only flies 50 seats, and Envoy obviously is mixed. PSA and Envoy both have gotten brand new jets in the last year. Can they turn those leases around to someone else to eliminate that debt? Possibly, is anyone looking to take on new airframes, maybe not. What’s the viability of two WO sharing the same bases moving forward? Can DP find a way to force the hand of a contract carrier or two through the summer, Mesa’s is up this fall too.
There’s a Brazilian (if you don’t get it, you haven’t seen the best of G.W Bush’s speeches) ways this can play out. Honesty no one knows what exactly will happen come 10/1.