Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
Already happening. We are about halfway done parking a total of 28 Saab 340s and 29 E135s. Thats equals about 20% of our total fleet. But of course you dont see that on the slick APA videos bashing Eagle.
I guarantee AMR will sell/spin off AE in the future. AE will be much smaller flying a handful of 50-70seaters. There will be at least one other regional carrier (Republic/CHQ, Skywest) who will be flying a larger portion of the AA feed(70+seat a/c, E170/175s, CRJ900s). It will be cheaper for AMR to do this. They will whipsaw regionals against each other and payrates will drop. It wont be raising the bar for the profession, but it will be feeding AA the cheapest way possible. It is your scope clause that dictates regional flying, not AE's, so stay strong and dont budge.
I would not look at the bashing (if you choose to call it that) directed at the pilot group over at Eagle. Management took tremendous paycuts from us, cancelled orders of Boeings, yet continued to purchase Billions worth of RJs, that took over a tremendous amount of mainline flying.
I have many times heard Eagle pilots refer to our Scope clause as some type of personal vendetta towards them, however when AE's scope is violated ala Trans States suddenly SCOPE needs to be defended, or how dare management tries to out source our flying. It always makes sense when it hits close to home.
I wish our two groups were more unified, I can say that both sides have said and done stupid things.
Paycuts can be taken, and pay can be restored, however SCOPE needs to be defended. No one will be flying E-170s or CRJ-900s except AA pilots. The company does not have authority to do so, and no one over here is remotely interested in giving that up.
Regards,
AAflyer