Originally Posted by
PRS Guitars
Im pretty sure it’s AA that is against this. Once they do that they will have to do the same for WO gate agents, rampers, FA’s etc, and the costs go up. I would be for this personally, I think it’s more options for our pilots. We’d have to get the group 1 pay rates sorted and it would affect OTS hiring of military for a few years but that would sort out eventually too and we’d be like SWA with no feed and no problem hiring.
Nah. They’d hire all the ground types under Piedmont like they do now. There’d be no change there. It might even allow them to drop quite a bit of middle management.
The FAs maybe would have to be brought aboard.
Someone else before you mentioned how it would affect OTS/MIL hires. It would but: I worked in the training dept at a WO. I can 1 million % assure you that AA management could not care one bit less about quality of pilots. If they meet the minimum(pass training) they are a qualified line pilot. That’s all AA cares about, bodies. Where those bodies come from no one cares.