Originally Posted by Oldfreightdawg

Just Finished 737 School, the APA ORD Chair went through at the same time. He reported that AE ALPA approached APA and said "staple us to your list".

WHY? YOU ASK??? (which is what I said)

You can make fun of APA all day long about their contract proposals asking for a 50% pay increase, lower monthly max, etc, etc. But I'll tell you this: every AAL pilot will defend scope to the bitter end. Yes AE has 22 more CRJ's coming, for a total of 72 70 seater's. But we own EVERYTHING ELSE above 50 seats. What if APA signed a sweetheart deal with AMR to fly everything over 50 seats? What would happen to AE? The 50 seat market is dying.

Several weeks ago it was reported that chief pilots were roaming the terminals canvasing the pilot group and soliciting opinions about flying 100 seat jets and what we'd be willing to earn flying them. The writing is on the wall, AE was on the sale block once, it could easily go there again.

I'm not making any predictions, but there is more than one source for this rumor.