Originally Posted by
airlinegypsy
Yes I think pre bankruptcy Envoy (Eagle back then) owned all of the aircraft. The assets were all transferred to AMR and someone brought up the fact that the pilots should should go with the airplanes. Who knows how serious it would have gotten and I think ALPA was starting proceedings to protect our successorship but the MEC dropped for (you guessed it), more flow.
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It happened way before bankruptcy. That was the origin of the Protected Pilot agreement (2011). They didn’t achieve “more flow”, they got flow through. Prior to that agreement those pilots had no career progression to AA at all.
It was still a bad deal, but, as I recall, it was put to a pilot vote and approved overwhelmingly. No one really understood the mistake we had made until bankruptcy though.