I Dont think that pref hiring will happen in less Than 5 years.

Probably right. But it would at least help if they took the 824 this year

Wingtips, when are you going to take an English language class and actually learn how to make a complete sentence without spelling and punctuation mistakes?

I flew with many senior "experienced" capt's that predicted exactly what would happen to a T...First our MEC would give away all our airplanes to AA so they could add more debt to file Bankruptcy-Check...Second they would try and divest us as fast as possible and try to get us to extend our contract-Check...Push it down our throat and scare us that its our only hope before the end of the year because they are planning a bankruptcy before the 4Q earnings-Check....The only reason we didn't get divested was because managment knew that TA would never pass...If we were divested right now they would walk right up to the judge and bid out our flying... We would not be part of AA and just have a contract like all the other contracts they are trying to void threw bankruptcy..Remeber our MEC gave away our rights to go with the aircraft...Its going to be harder to convince the judge to diversify the feed when AA owns 3200+ eagle pilots...Comair ****ed off delta when they had a strike and grounded delta to a halt..Why do you think airlines whipsaw their regionals now?..guess what? we can't strike because we gave that right up and that TA would of extended our current contract 8 more years...It doesn't matter now because its all in the judges hands and can go in any direction...This was all planned in advance and out of our hands.

FYI I was just saying your cool with pbs and giving in to what managment wants....Gojet might be a better fit for you... ;)

I wrote this on my Iphone so the spelling and grammer are very poor :)

Don't you mean grammar?? Haha sorry I just had to...

Damn man you seem to have it all figured out, sounds like a real conspiracy. Do you think that AMR might have actually faked 9/11 so that they could force paycuts, they knew 11 years ago, that they wanted to get pay cuts out of American Eagle pilots?? I bet they got UAL to join right in, and even Bush liked the idea so he could invade Iraq??

You're expecting this from a supposed professional airline pilot that advocates pilots making $31 per hour to fly an Airbus and would happily propose that to his beloved management in order to do just that if he can successfully seize another carriers planes ?

He's too busy pushing other pilots down tall stairways to have any time for class. :cool:

You have no idea how lucky we are to have your opinion :-/
However, you ain't quite as smart as you seem to think.

Well, that sentiment generally come from our more experienced lifer professional pilots that wants to fly the Airbus for $115/hr and stick the FOs with $40/hr because we need to pay our dues. I would say close to 100% of FOs in the regionals would not want to see this type of scale anywhere. OTOH, I know quite a few bitter senior CAs here that have so much hatred for the APA that they've said to me, "I hope they f'ing strike, I'll go over there and fly the 777."

Facts are facts. AA pays Eagle market rates for the feed service. That makes Eagle industry average. Eagle may have a smaller profit margin due to a more senior workforce being on higher step pay rates, but that doesn't change the fact that Eagle is industry average already.

It doesn't matter anyway, from what I've seen this past year and a half their MEC will roll over on whatever management wants. Expect sizable changes.