Originally Posted by
Flyby1206
The other option is outsourcing the flying to another carrier. You can give it away to Republic, who is a 3rd party company, or make a scope exception for Eagle to be the sole provider of regional flying and at least keep the flying within the AMR umbrella.
My main concern is for APA and AMR as a whole to remain competitive and avoid making irrational and emotional decisions like Eastern, Pan-Am, TWA, and the list goes on...
AMRs scope opener specifically allows ANY commuter operator and purposely does not make distinction between Eagle, Mesa, GoJet, or any other outsourcer. As far as the AA pilots go, it wouldn't make any difference whether their jobs were outsourced to GoJet or Eagle, so if AMR was to somehow extract 76 seat aircraft from AA, AA pilots might as well allow them to go to the cheapest bidder "to remain competitive." And Eagle is not "competitive" which I'm sure AMR will explain to you in a couple years.
And to "keep the outsourced flying under the AMR umbrella" how much more of MY paycheck are YOU willing to give Arpey to subsidize the non-competitiveness of Eagle? Sorry, no sale.
If it comes to that, a chapter 7 is ok too. There's way to much capacity in the system now and that might allow UAL's "competitive contract" to survive, while those nasty AA pilots hit the unemployment line.
It would seem somehow iconic that "American" Airlines go belly-up . . . . just like the present government of this republic is herding the nation to.
Probably should change your avatar to "Live on your knees and take what they give you"
You might want to research why the companies you cite went out of business. It was largely management incompetence, not scope.