fixed it for you. No one is flowing at 3 years. Even the propaganda calculator on the website doesn’t project 3 years… I’ve been here 4 years, and showing another 2-2.5 years to flow.

I wouldn’t expect EDV DOH to carry over for longevity, in this hypothetical. It would be on DOS of whatever new LOA there is.

Or a credit of 2:1 with a cap or something.

Not difficult to solve.

Exactly. It’s the next “interesting” option besides crazy money, and might be effective to stop some LCC losses, while not driving costs crazy high for the RJ partner. My biggest question isn’t “how does EDV survive?” but “how do Non-WOs compete?”

By raising wages even more to offset the fact that they have no guaranteed progression.

If they can't afford it, then too bad for them. Time to end the regional model.

I think you are right. Pulling CA and near CA First Officers from their competitors will hasten their competitors’ demise as well as solidifying their stability. Other regionals that match this, of course, will change this calculus, “put up or dry up.”

Exactly. Delta can (if they will, is yet to be seen) afford to match AA in whatever way they decide. UAL owns 49% of commuteair, so they could probably be ok too. But go-jet, mesa, republic? I don’t see how they can. Skyworst probably can get close, at least temporarily. Going to be interesting.

side note- I’ve spoken with a few DL pilots over the past week or 2 (before and after the AA news) and the ones I spoke to were very supportive of 9E and both even mentioned a “staple” of some sort unprompted. Just found that interesting.

The ones I spoke with said the same. The Delta pilots would not be affected at all by a staple, if fact that’s that’s what the Delta pilot group was talking about for years, bringing regional flying back in house.

That's been my experience, too. The sample size is small, but the sample I've talked to is actually larger than the loudest "staple hell no" contingent that APC has to offer.

DALPA will definitely engage management before the PWA is done, they are already not happy about $20+mil being dropped on EDV a few months ago. It’s in DALPAs interest to make sure Delta money spent on another pilot group is minimal. Supposedly DALPA is meeting with management including Ed Bastian today to discuss.