Maybe I am missing something, however weren’t those slots always American’s and they were just letting Jetblue use them through the NEA? With Jetblue pulling flying from the northeast due to the ATC shortage, they give the slots back and now it’s American’s problem to utilize them. Right now their regionals sure don’t have the pilots to fill those slots and It would seem that American would be under pressure to keep those slots. This appears to be a bigger problem for American than Jetblue but I’m just a line pilot and it’s above my pay grade.