Originally Posted by
eaglefly
LOL !!!!!!!!!!..........you talk as if you're the god of AMR knowledge. You're an outsider (among both AMR and Eagle management) interpreting a ruling who then cooks up a reality to suit his beliefs.
Unless you are wearing a three piece suit to work each day, I'd say you are equally an AMR / Eagle management outsider. I would also be willing to bet money that my internal sources at AMR were significantly higher up the pole than your's, or any of your friends were. That being the case, I no longer have access to them, but that doesn't change the fact of having been a close study of AMR for well over a decade.... can you say that. Also, I tend to read the actual arbitration decisions before making general statements, you might want to try it sometime.
All you have proven is that when you don't like the message, you attack the messenger.
Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Both Eagle management and the APA (unhappily) have acknowledged that AMR Eagle is free to acquire up to 22 more CRJ-700's.......that was the point that you attempted to refute (and failed).
No, I agree 100% that the result of the arbitration is that AMR is free to exercise their option contract to aquire more CRJ aircraft. This was the dispute between AMR and the APA. It was resolved by the arbitrator that AMR can do it. My point was that AMR and the APA are in contract talks, and the biggest thing on the APA radar screen is scope protection. If AMR did not have the ability to exercise those options it would take away a huge advantage that AMR currently has... This decision was about keeping the APA in fear of Eagle gettign larger planes.... it was NOT about if AMR even has the option contracts anymore, it was about IF they could exercise them IF they had them.
Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Feeble backpeddling and convoluted logic will not change that and it makes no difference if AMR "has" these options or "pulls something behind the scenes" to get them..................they CAN if they want.
of course it makes a difference if AMR has the options or not... do you think the APA would be more or less willing to talk scope relief if they KNEW the options for larger planes did not exist anymore?
Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Many of the 135's were intended to be parked, but were not and can still be. The ONLY thing stopping AMR Eagle is the financing. I'm sorry, but you've revealed YOUR "bubble" by your "sinking ship" wish, so anything Eagle related that comes off your keyboard is suspect at best and worthless at worst.
Just because I bash the regionals does not mean the information is not accurate... slanted towards a specific viewpoint perhaps; but certainly within the "scope" of reality.
Originally Posted by
eaglefly
The bottom line (this IS AMR) is that Eagle is free to acquire those jets and THAT is the fact, which makes the remainder of your assertions on this subject meaningless propwash.
No, the bottom line is that Eagle is free to exercise their option contracts for more CRJ's.... IF, and it is a big IF, they actually do still have valid option contracts. In all likelyhood those contracts expired long long ago.
If the contracts were valid, why would they have not shown them when they were working with the APA, and ALPA, on several TA's back in 2007?
They had nothing to lose by showing them, but didn't. Face it, the thought of additional CRJ's is a tool AMR has used for over 6 years now to keep Eagle pilots hopeful, and the APA fearful... to them, that's priceless.