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Old 01-28-2025 | 03:22 PM
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Buford Justice
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Sorry, but I don’t see it happening. The industry has changed, inflation made everything a lot more expensive since the last rates were negotiated. Skywest, Republic, Mesa, CommuteAir, GoJet all have significantly higher permanent rates than the AA wholly owned carriers. AA is going to roll back wholly owned pay rates while the rest of the industry continues to start around $100 and tops out around $230? Sorry, not gonna happen. Hopefully the days of Mesa being able to come in and underbid and then just do a completely ****ty job are far behind us. Quality lift isn’t cheap. Pay it or don’t, but the days of regional captains making 100K a year I think are behind us. AA isn’t losing its shirt because of RJ pilot pay, btw, let’s be serious. AA is making a bet it can serve more markets than UA and DL with big RJ’s because it’s has less restrictions on big RJ’s than the other carriers. It wouldn’t be making that bet if the lift was too expensive.
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