Originally Posted by
Andy Dufresne
You left out the part where this is temporary. A Hail Mary to slow attrition before they are no longer able to run their operation because people hate working there.
Their CBA becomes amendable in 2 years. That's why it's a 2 year LOA. They aren't going to make payscale LOA that goes beyond the existing CBA
I said this would happen years ago. That the legacy carriers can afford to run their owned regionals at a loss to keep the feed going to/from outstations keeping the mainline flights full. AA currently runs it as a cost center.
Next comes bankruptcies, buyouts and mergers.
We're already seeing the competition with Frontier, Spirit and Jetblue. They're buying the staffing as much as the equipment and routes they don't already operate.