Originally Posted by
withthatsaid182
Here's the newest rumor I heard...
I spoke with a captain friend of mine who said he was talking to the head of the Eagle MEC...or talked to someone who talked to the head? Anywho...
Eagle has apparently secured financing for 23 more CRJs...AMR wants AE to do the flying with them...110 upgrades...and all the furloughed guys back on line by February?
Sounds like crap to me but I'm wondering if anyone else has heard this...I know this CRJ talk has been going for a while but this one sounds like there is some closure....
Come on people.... options on airplanes don't last for 6 years....
They DID have options for up to 25 more CRJ's back in 2003... but I have NEVER heard of options being held open for this period of time... at least not without a payment to hold the options open, which would show up in company financial reports.... and it ain't there. The APA asked for AMR to show them the options back in 2007 when they were working on a TA to provide a stipend to any Eagle CA's that left to go to AA.... one of the things the APA insisted on was seeing that the options actually still existed. The TA subsequently fell apart when AMR couldn't/wouldn't produce the options...
so, this is just more BS to keep more people fro quiting a sinking ship.