This just in from my buds at American Eagle. Eagle and their union have reached an agreement to move their most senior pilots to AA to allow cheaper pilots and more new hires to cut costs.

Expect at least a 1000 new hires at Eagle over the next two years. It may be another 8 to 12 months before most of the top pilots are moved over to AA, but be patient. The jobs are coming for those who want to go to Eagle.

 

But what about the 1200+ guys still on the street that are senior to any flowthroughs that Eagle might send over.

 

whats going to happen to all the AA guys?

 

first of put down the crack pipe!!!!!!!! and its only 244 that will flow over so idk how u get 1,000 tell ur buddy to put down the pipe!!!!!! There is no court rule yet on this so there is no truth to it its all up to the judge!!!!!

 

egl will shrink overall because each crj70 they get means 2 emb135's parked. egl is capped to a percentage of flying and the larger crj's eat up asm's quicker. iow fewer crews needed overall. the recall/hiring is in anticipation of the flow through as is the aa furlough. eventually look for 2000 flyers at ae. imo. aa will work the codeshare with BA and shrink int'l presence and if approved with JAL it could mean aa does the majority across the pond but who knows what JAL will look like after bk.
coupled with that CHQ will be picking up flying as a connection carrier again putting downward pressure on ASM's. Hearing that ORD is downsizing on the mainline side as well which will be partially tasked to egl - again burning asm's at a faster rate than normal feeder ops. ever wonder why it requires a pilot group 1/3 the size of aa's numbers to do 7% of the flying? it's because of the nature of a feeder operation. start moving that to mainline replacement and those asm's are gone pronto. feeders spend a lot larger percentage of there block time on the ground burning through duty time - hence more crews needed for this type of flying or taxiing you might say. when amr begins shifting to longer routes it's over. fewer pilots and the short route flying has been contracted to CHQ in ORD.

 

Here we go.....

 

This thread should be closed, absolutely insane post. Eagle might hire 100 by 2012, did you add an extra zero by accident?

 

disagree, the poster has put this info out in several locations. at least here is a place to quickly refute it w/o reading every thread infected by it.

 

and btw - no agreement has been reached on a position drafted to take to arbitration.

 

Did you know the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?