Originally Posted by
bonvoyage
A good friend at a wholly owned told me American wants to sell them to reduce the cost that came with the higher pay and that is the only way out of the contracts early. Is that rumor true?
that is not, generally, how contracts work.
More importantly, it's definitely not how the railway labor act works. The only way they can lower their labor costs is
1) find another airline with the pilots and airplanes to take the WO workload at a lower cost
2) get the WO pilots to accept concessions (which generally comes after one makes a credible threat of #1)
It's not immediately obvious to me what current airline could pull off #1