Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
Lets see, with the prospect of another 1,500 pilots senior to me doing flying we really should have been doing ourselves since the purchase of Western, let me be the first to wish American luck.
We'd have to (gasp) grow internally to compete.
Agreed 100% Narrow body flying back to LAX, SEA and perhaps SFO as well. We sure as heck wouldn't be overstaffed after that. I don't think enough block hours remain to pull it off without some new aircraft leases, but there are more versed men here than I. I would hope that LEE and the MEC will be adamantly against a merger with a smaller (nearly half the size of American Eagle), narrow body carrier with our current staffing. 1,500 numbers worth of expansion would be a nice NWA/DAL merger bonus for everyone.
My best wishes to AA and the fTWA crowd that's been punished for nearly a decade; this one will be a slaughter for someone.