I think we are a minimum of 6 months away from negotiating anything, and likely 10-12 months away from negoting anything that comes close to what Delta got in their future TA. It will boil down to the company being willing to match Delta pay(at a minimum) and actually being willing to allow QOL increases for our pilots. So far, they have not shown that they are willing to entertain any significant changes/increases that would bring us even close to industry-standard levels.

Just like Delta, it will likely take upper AA leadership actually attending negotiating sessions for us to get anywhere. Otherwise they will claim one thing publically, while behind the scenes they are directing the company negotiators to slow-roll the pilots and not agree to anything. Classes will always be full at AA, even if we do make less $ and have worse QOL than Spirit amd Jetblue. There is no incentive for AA negotiators to negotiate anything close to what Delta got. We have not even asked for mediation yet. Until we file for mediation, imagine whatever time line it takes to achieve a TA, being moved in the future day by day by day...always leaving us x amount of days away from a TA.