Originally Posted by
Montcalm
The odds of seeing a widebody Airbus at AA are virtually zero. At best, they might begrudgingly order a few more 787s when the time comes to retire the 772s. The rest will likely be outsourced to Oneworld "partners". We have, in essence, no real scope protection.
Yeah I'm really surprised there's not more outrage about this. We basically ship all our widebody flying to LHR for BA Europe connections and now it's gonna be to SEA for AS to operate Hawaii/Asia. Soon we won't even need WB in LAX when we can gift that to our Oneworld friends.
No word from APA on this news. Also, if we are talking about scope. What's the deal with Contour? I've been seeing them an awful lot more in CLT and DFW. Guess they can skirt around the Eagle "commuter" scope on that one? The interline/JV/Oneworld stuff is costing us AA pilot jobs.