the Connection contracts with AA have nothing to do with Eagle. The TSA planes owned by AMR did but that issue has been resolved. The connection flying is what is left over from TWExpress. As of all the current contracts, none of it is "our" flying, its theirs.
My two cents says that this is mgmt's solution to the displacement issues. They have about the right amount of pilots but they still can't figure out where they want them and its getting too costly to keep retraining the bottom of the list until they figure out whats going on. It really sucks for the bottom 75 but I do honestly believe that this is a temporary situation until the dust from the schedule shuffles settles. Good luck to everyone involved in this mess.