AMR selling Eagle

[igneousy2]

Exactly my point, this is not good. I will not stick around Eagle and allow myself to whipsaw that APA, I will not do it. I hope it does not happen. I dont want to be a career regional pilot. I am out of here as soon as the right offer comes.

You owe APA nothing. You must be fairly new at Eagle. Don't be a fool... APA had the opportunity to stop the craziness in St. Louis and they DIDN'T. You must not have been around when APA launched there anti-Eagle campaign in 1999-2000. Ask an AA pilot who the best AMR pilots are...he probably still has his badge. Ask the TWA or Reno pilots how they feel about these guys you are so disgusted you are being whipsawed against. APA does not care about you, me, this industry, or this profession. They are just looking out for number one....not that I can fault them for that, but you owe them NOTHING.

Going to a major does not have the benefits it once did. It might be easier to bring wherever you are the little baby step up to the majors then it would be to start all over at the bottom of the list of a major. If I got to do it again, I wouldn't leave Eagle unless I got on with UPS or FDX.

 

[siucavflight]

I am not saying that I owe APA anything. I am a regional pilot aspiring to be a mainline pilot. I want to keep the mainline flying where it should be and the regional flying where it should be. If I want to fly a 100 seater I would much rather do it a the A pay scale.

 

[Draginass]

If you want the A scale, you're going to have to look to SW, FEDEX, or UPS. All the rest vary between "B" such as AA and much much lower.

 

[TAWS]

AA scope applies to everyone - CHQ was getting fined something in the region of $30K/day for flying EMB170s for UAL. That's why they purchased Shuttle America. They later purchased MidAtlantic and renamed it Republic, but that's another story. AE is one of the most expensive labor groups out there, having CHQ and TSA onboard SAVES AAL a boatload of cash. If AE were forced to compete, you can wave goodbye to the big paychecks and soft time. BTW, RAH is getting out of the 50 seat market, so I doubt they will be interested in AE.

 

[igneousy2]

Big paychecks! at eagle! hahahahahahaha!

Please!

Eagle crews are more expensive because there Captains are way more senior than Republic, et al. A little bit of rapid expansion and that should close the gap quite a bit. No matter what, I don't think AA will have it's fingers completely out of Eagle and through the sales agreement or otherwise make it so that Eagle continues providing cheap feed to AA. After thinking about this, I think this divesture will be more of a paper transaction than anything.

 

[Hagar17]

I am not saying that I owe APA anything. I am a regional pilot aspiring to be a mainline pilot. I want to keep the mainline flying where it should be and the regional flying where it should be. If I want to fly a 100 seater I would much rather do it a the A pay scale.

Now if those morons with the RJDC understood that.....

 

[thebest]

Ouchie!!! Sounds Like A Bad Case Of Whipsaw!!!!!!

That dont happen if you have alpa.....RIGHT!

 

[labbats]

I'm not clear on where this latest Eagle development is heading for better or worse. I'm mostly concerned about losing D2 privileges for me and my family. In all honesty that's probably the main reason I've stayed at Eagle as long as I have.


Funny how AMR could have solved all of Eagles woes with AA numbers for all of us. AA numbers would have lined up newhires and ousted the high paid senior captains while it costed them zero.

 

[C-150ETOPS]

Funny how AMR could have solved all of Eagles woes with AA numbers for all of us. AA numbers would have lined up newhires and ousted the high paid senior captains while it costed them zero.

The small minority at Eagle who always yelled about getting a date-of-hire always stopped the idea dead in it's tracks.

 

[eaglefly]

The small minority at Eagle who always yelled about getting a date-of-hire always stopped the idea dead in it's tracks.

Actually, it's AMR who has always stopped the idea dead in its tracks. They don't want to strengthen the bargaining power of their feeder pilots by tying mainline issues into their nexus.

Before it would even get to the APA, it would have to pass AMR first and it never has and never will.