Originally Posted by
TexAg11
I’ve spent a little time thinking about this flow going away in bankruptcy stuff, and I just don’t know why it would. Getting rid of flow doesn’t provide any cost savings. If it’s gone, then AAG only helps the Spirits and Frontiers as all their WO regional pilots have a mass exodus. I’m pretty sure everyone at a WO walks that stay or spirit tightrope as some point. Or if not one of those carriers then just the highest paying regional. The WOs basically don’t need a recruiting department because of it. And my understanding is that the training over at AA is mostly seamless for the flows, while street hires and military tend to be the ones needing extra, so the training dept tends to like it. (Not that a flow is a better pilot, just the FOM and procedures and familiarity etc)
Not glorifying flow or saying that it’s not gonna be a decade...just speaking to the “flows gone in bankruptcy” point.
Wouldn’t mind hearing some other perspectives.
I don’t think anyone is saying it’s gone, but rather of zero usefulness as of now. Effectively it might as well be gone. In terms of it going away in the future, AA could use it to get concessions with the threat of removing it.
You are correct, however it has huge negotiating power, at least it did.