Originally Posted by
Aquaticus
The reason these regional rates aren't meaningful is that they are short term until they shut down. Their business model isn't sustainable with attrition where it is. These rates are literally to entice people to stay until the last day.
Air Wisconsin literally just inked a 5 year deal with similar FO rates (adjusted for number of seats).
management
loves that people are buying into this nonsense. There is zero evidence for it. The AA wholly owned’s would owe AA nothing if they couldn’t complete the flights. Skywest, Mesa, and Republic are on multiple CBA’s and no one has elected to not renew instead of pay their pilots more.