I have no idea why it’s relevant to this discussion but the WO operations are not AA pilots. Anyone at either company that thinks otherwise is wrong. American Holdings put in place a preferential hiring program to staff the WO. The program has nothing to do with staffing AA and everything to do with keeping the trenches full of C scale pilots.

This reality does have a place in the flow back discussion however...

It would also be beneficial for the young blood hired during the post 2010 boom to look at how well WO operations faired during previous downturns. I see lots of posts about how WO pilots expect there to be deep cuts at non WO carriers and hope it will work out that WO cuts will be less drastic. I think they have that 180 out. I see the opposite. In fact I’ll be very surprised if there are still four carriers at American holdings by the end of next summer.