Originally Posted by
FlyGuy2021
They you haven't been paying attention. AA is absolutely panicking about regional staffing. Most people do not understand that more passengers at AA are flown on regional jets every day than flown on the entire Airbus fleet. The regional lift is far more important than most people realize.
I'm somewhat certain I have more information about this than you do.
AA is only panicking about their mainline staffing. If you are the right candidate, it makes no difference if you come from a WO. They will hire you. They know the numbers.
If the WO feed dies, Skywest has plenty of capacity to sell. It's cheaper to dump 61 million per quarter to the retention programs than pay SKW. It cuts the WO Eagle profits to half. But if mainline can't staff their flying, there is no more AA.