Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
I could have flowed. I chose not to. I’m not angry. Just flabbergasted by your pilot group and your union. Can you articulate for me and anyone else following along why absorbing the regional flying and pilots into mainline is not a good idea?
Pretty much everyone agrees that bringing regional flying in-house is a good thing.
You had this same bizarre argument a few months ago, trying to blame APA as the sole obstacle towards bringing regional flying in-house. It still doesn’t make sense- AA could merge its whole owneds tomorrow and start flowing en masse to mainline, getting them a mainline seniority number, bringing CRJs and ERJs in-house at mainline rates, having a massive vacancy bid for these new airplanes, increase their capacity beyond 76 seats, etc. They don’t need permission from APA. It’s not like AA’s incompetent management listens to APA anyway. It’s also not like AA was on board with all this but APA objected and they decided “oh well, APA doesn’t want to play, let’s outsource to Air Wisconsin instead”.
Bringing everything in-house would certainly have consequences, one of which would be essentially eliminating AA as a desireable destination for any military/OTS applicant for years. Not the end of the world, but definitely something to consider.
I’m not saying APA isn’t dysfunctional. It absolutely is. But this “if only APA worked with the regional ALPA MECs!” thing is just bizarre.