Can you say CONTRACT Coming Up?
The only thing going on here is the upcoming contract negotiations. AMR knows they had a great deal with a ridiculous 16 year contract voted in by dinosours who are now gone, and the contract is soon to expire. The pilots are sick and tired of management and are looking forward to ending a nightmare of 16 years and AMR knows it. If they cry out "we want to sell off eagle", then the weak minded eagle pilots will back down off of any demands they may be thinking of, and AMR gets another long term method to abuse pilots. As far as I'm concerned......SELL SELL SELL......management, staffing, and crew scheduling, can't be worse.....maybe bad.....but not worse.