Originally Posted by
careerpilot
American Eagle has informed employees to refer their friends for pilot positions. American Eagle is currently short staffed and are expecting to have 450 captain positions open up to do American Airline pilots returning to AA. AMR corporation has anounced that American Airlines will begin recalling furloughed pilots as of Jan 2007. For those of you who are interested you can apply at
www.aa.com by clicking American Eagle careers link. Good luck.
Yes, but AA has some 2800 pilots on furlough, calling back some and getting them to actually return is going to take a while. I'd guess it will be a looooong while before the current trend is reversed and there is any upflow to AA from Eagle.