Originally Posted by Wheels up

I don't think the APA is interested in creating another low-pay competitor. AE is quite enough. Contract language, no matter how obviously intended, can be twisted and tortured by a compliant arbitrator to read anything management wants. With 37/44/50 seat RJs rapidly becoming obsolete in all but a few markets, and holding fast to only allowing 47 70-seaters, a strategy might just to let it implode under it's own weight, eventually . . . or sooner if oil spikes.