10yr CA's at AE are considered "junior".....

 

Yes, very senior in comparison to Eagle, but also a very small carrier. I doubt they would merge either of these two carriers with Eagle based on CURRENTLY wholly owned status alone. I think any other carrier that would be merged with Eagle (this "Eagle") if one ever is would be more based on fleet commonality. Mixing Piedmont with Eagle would be like mixing pepper and honey just to see how it tastes.

 

JJ knows best!

 

Unless we're being spun off I don't see any point in merging all 3. I hope LCC and AA management are smarter than PNCL management considering the cost of retraining bunch of people and having pilots sit at home collecting guarantees because there aren't any available instructors or sim time. Plus the sim time required to hire new pilots when retirement kicks in while we lose pilots left and right. Let's be realistic. Nobody here wants a merger either, not that we have a say in it to begin with.

More likely that PSA and PDT will be sold off in their current state. Better dust off my résumé lol man I love this industry.

 

On second thought, I hope they merge all 3 and spin us off so I can short the heck out of the stock!

 

Now we are thinking, I like it!

 

For now.... Just a little over a year ago weren't you all about to be at a 3-4 year upgrade? If the 220ish go to AA and the other 800 go as was agreed upon prior to bankruptcy once again AE will become relatively quick with an upgrade..... And that 10 year CA will not be so junior any more.......

PDT last I checked wasn't MDT the base where 10 years as a CA would put you bottom reserve nearly? I know there were some bases like that.... DAY for one with PSA there are a lot of nearing 10 year CA's that are barely holding onto a line..... Or bidding the last few lines or even bypassing in hopes of getting a better secondary line....

Anyways my other thought is which of the three have the better contracts? I hear PDT isn't terrible but really have no clue. PSA is not anything to write home about and cost the company very little compared to others.... Wasn't AE one of the best out there for a "regional"? Just thinking again IF I were worried about cost and going to try to reduce such in a combined airline would it not make sense to trim it where it cost the most?

Just thinking again with PSA the one, few things, we have going for our pilot group are we are all qualified on the 700's and it'd be easy to pull 200's today and put a 700 on property tomorrow and it would not cost one dollar more in training......

 

Then we all displace into them!

 

Haha elaborate? PSA replaces Crj200s with the 700s or whatever USairways has on order and AE pilots displace a PSA pilot? Hmmmm sorry but no regional scope has a leg to stand on....

 

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