I highly doubt Eagle captains will be paid that rate. According to our contract, new aircraft rates are to be negotiated and if no agreement, then an arbitrator decides.

As stated before, arbitrators view the competitive landscape when making these decisions, so the marketplace would decide that. More then likely for a 76-seat E-175 or CRJ-900, captains would probably get a $5/hour or so bump up from the 70-seat rate (whoopie) and F/O's perhaps the same. The E-190 would probably only be flown by AA feeders if BK comes into play and there again, our rates would be arbitrated (Eagle probably NOT included in AA BK) and again we couldn't do any worse then what's already out there.

Eagle's already paying me 125K/year to fly 50-seats, another 26 seats for $5/hour more is a pretty good deal for them.................which now you see why AMR wants them here so bad.

It's almost a no-brainer once the lone obstacle is gone.........which will just take a little more time. Not my choice and I have no say, but just like most other regionals it's a shoo-in.