We hear this whine about the APA having some sort of master plan to screw AE pilots. Baloney.

The truth is AE ALPA screwed ITSELF with a 16 year contract and they want the APA to fix their problems by pushing for a "one-list," effectively merging AE into AA. Sorry, but it ain't gonna happen. APA pilots aren't going to pay for it and AA management won't consider it without huge concessions from the APA.

Will regional feed go away? No, but it can be done by other entities other than AE. And as point of fact, the economics of the 37 and 50 RJ are killing it as we speak. A few loudmouths at AE won't admit that they really don't "own" their own jobs. Their flying there due to an exception to the APA scope, something they knew when hired by AE, and now they think that AE and AA are somehow equals and that they have some kind of right to a place on the AA seniority list. They are NOT equals by any measure of career metric . . . compensation, size aircraft, overall pilot experience, career expectations, etc.