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But seriously
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.
This is partially correct. That flow was the result of a grievance arbitration. There was no pilot vote. The subsequent ones were all done by pilot votes as contract amendments.