Originally Posted by
planejoe
Keep their own regional lift going and hire from outside to deplete other carriers' lift. Win - Win for AA.
This is probably the only industry I can think of where the employees who represent the brand day to day are not the clear favorite to be promoted. Just business I guess but very odd.
They will literally do anything to not issue a seniority number which would solve the problem over night.
First off there is no way the majors’ unions would go for that and that kind of deal would be a contract changer that would be no going back from.
This is a relatively short term problem. In t8 months or so things will look much different. AA recognizes the need to hang on to the regional model but the temporary nature of much of this increase is because they don’t want to destroy the model and do anything permanent to change it.