Cant sell something if there is nobody to buy it.

 

No one is going to purchase a regional without ironclad provisions defining what the flying will be after the sale.

 

Railway Labor act contracts do not expire.

 

i believe the rates were part of an MOU established to retain and attract pilots. MOUs can expire.

 

It was explained to me that American can just sell the certificates to a “new” company, and lease the aircraft to it. And that company will do the exact same flying, but for 1/3 the cost

 

Good grief, learn from History. AA puts their regionals up for sale anytime contracts are getting close to becoming amendable.
Eagle (when it was Eagle) was for sale in 2008, then again in 2010 when they wanted more concessions or you're being sold, then again in the bankruptcy more concessions, and even AFTER the bankruptcy they demanded more concessions under threat of being Comair II (since theyd run to the "for Sale" thing so often nobody believed it anymore. In that case, they did watch as EagleVoy went from 3200 pilots to 1800. It coincided with the increased mainline hiring everywhere, but they did NOTHING to stop the bleeding until late 2015 when they started giving back everything they took in December 2015, then continued until we ended up with $100k Fo's and $200k-$350k CA's...

You can expect a merger of the WO's down the road, they'll buy a few more of the smaller feed providers, they'll come up with the word American Connection for non-owned carriers and keep American Eagle for owned carriers. Heck, they may even buy Silver in bankruptcy and rebrand it executive (since AA still holds the operating certificate) and have them run a base in SJU again.....

AA doesn't do anything new, they have a 30-35 year cycle, then they repeat.

 

and they'll staff the pilots with 1/3rd less pay how? SJS only goes so far. Once the Boeing, Airbus and Pratt issues are resolved the floodgates open again and they won't be staffing anything with 1/3rd less pay.

 

Because if 5000+ Eagle pilots are put on the street, yet a new Eagle carrier is created and hiring, you believe everyone of the pilots will refuse a job? What will you do go work at wal mart instead? They would have every seat filled immediately. Now would be the time to do it when LCCs are liquidating and there’s no where to go

 

GoJet style.

 

Isn't this what happened when "American Eagle" became "Envoy"?