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Originally Posted by Dunkin
I'm thinking they end up making 100% of the new hires come from the three WOs, that is basically the same thing and makes your new hire date at the regional your spot in line for AA. Envoy, PDT, and PSA will all grow as the contracts with other carriers expire or get canceled due to poor performance (RAH).
Sounds good on the surface, but expect any such carriers planes and pilots that AAG kicks to the curb would be put to good use by AA's competitors, in addition to agreements to protect their own core businesses feed operation. As a result, that plan has high risk of failure to achieve such an objective. Some talk about purposely hamstringing non-owned carriers to support owned ones and I think should AAG ever elect to deliberately sabotage the viability of non-owned carriers in favor of their in-house ones, I could see lawsuits flying all over the place.
The minute regional X gets a whiff of their feed contract not being renewed, they will aggressively sell themselves to someone else for too cheap to pass up, but that might mean more concessions from employees. That could be mitigated for pilots by flow agreements with the new contract legacy to protect their investment. Pretty soon, it won't be the poaching of pilots, but the poaching of carriers that are abandoned and the only legacy that some talk about playing favorites with or abandonment is AA and again, unless the 3 AA WO's can now reel in MORE than 50 pilots/month from the street (not poaching), the engine never gets the gas it needs to run as smooth as some think it will. Those pilots simply don't exist in the necessary numbers and the present shuffling of deck chairs (which is all that is occurring), isn't the gas needed for the future engine.