If I were American I’d just absorb my 3 WO’s. Everyone comes in at1 year seniority however instead of seniority by age in class it’s determjned by your DOH at whichever regional your coming from. Come up with a new pay rate for all the RJ aircraft. Then everyone can bid for any base and aircraft their seniority can hold.

Seems like this would be a way better recruiting tool then a hard to predict flow.

I know this will probably never happen but seems to make sense to me.

Flow and the WO are designed to keep cost lower and profits up... they’ll want to hold off on doing that as long as possible.

I don't think you understand how hub and spoke operations work.

CASM is a useless metric if you only have 50-75 people to move during a given bank. Put alternatively, should AA send A320s from CLT to EWN? A -200 with 40 pax will always cost less than an A320 with 40 pax. It's about net profit, not cost per seat-mile. CASM is one metric, but not the most useful one.

Regionals will ALWAYS have a greater CASM. They have fewer seats. Fact of life. The reason AA makes a killing is because regionals keep up the frequency of feed to/from the hubs and makes CONNECTIONS possible that do not involve 3 to 6 hours of waiting in an airport. Nobody would even book such tickets if they had to wait that long between flights.

Cheaper DOES NOT mean more profitable.

Pointing out higher CASM at the regionals is simply a tool for middle management to try to get everyone at the WOs to be happy with their current wages and not fight for what they deserve.

This guy as a point^

I explained in very basic terms why a CRJ costs more to operate than an Airbus on a CASM basis for a guy they seemed to have it backwards. Nothing was said about hub and spoke, frequency, networks, etc. Think about what you said, you're claiming I do not get something that wasn't even part of the conversation to begin with? We were talking about CASM.