Originally Posted by
eaglefly
I agree.
Get all flying to mainline and take perhaps the top 50% of the Eagle pilots. The rest can be offered preferential interviews once the furloughees are back. That way 100-seaters can be flown by mainline where they should be and the furloughees and a substantial percentage of Eagle pilots can benefit.
The bottom half of the eagle pilots would surely understand that sacrificing their low-wage RJ F/O positions for an chance at interview for a decent job sometime in the future is the BEST for this profession. Most are young and can afford this, while those older and more senior cannot.
All in all it's the best possible scenario.
"Selling out" the bottom 50% of your own list??? Wow, I bet you would be a popular "guy" amongst those "sacrificial lambs" that make up the bottom 50% of the list
Besides.....when AA has 2000+ pilots on furlough, where do you see "EGL's chosen ones" - AKA Top 50% sitting on the AA seniority list?? When you have 2000+ AA pilots on the street waiting to come back, and you want to put another 1500+ "chosen" EGL pilots in the mix.....good luck on that mess
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Seeing that it's been 6+ years and AA still has that many guys/gals on the street, the EGL guys/gals would be waiting for many years to see the light at the end of that tunnel
All and all....sounds like an unrealistic pipe dream.