Originally Posted by
TallFlyer
Disagree. The key is one legacy putting 50-76 seats on a mainline list. As an aside, my guess is that will be DAL, whom I believe already have a CRJ900 rate in their contract (they still do pay rates per type).
Beyond that, I think you see the other two legacies (UAL, AA, and maybe Alaska) panic and then do the same thing.
Wild cards in that process would be a SKW OR RAH acquisition by any of the legacies and then detangling all the aircraft operated for other carriers. That could be a catalyst.
At the end of the day I think the goal is to get all those aircraft on one seniority list, then the competition for pilots via pay rates that we’ve seen over the last 5 years continues.
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.
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here is a idea
what if everyone that is at Envoy, Piedmont, PSA that is with in one year of flowing to AA is given a AA seniority number, but they stay at the regional until flow date. You could throw in retaining pay seniority when you flow as well (better than retention bonus) You then would never have a problem staffing a wholly owned regional. It’s free for AA and they can merge each wholly owned by hire date and last four of social when they give out the seniority numbers. just a thought.