AA/US Airways merger and impact to their regionals...

[AcarsMe]

So does anyone here have any thoughts/speculations/rumors about what would happen to Piedmont, PSA, and Eagle if/when this merger goes forward?

 

[paddlehigh]

who cares.

 

[ackattacker]

I don't know how it will go, but I wouldn't expect good news.

 

[bikeguy]

who cares.

Tool....Go F@@K yourself....

 

[ackattacker]

From the APA term sheet looks like a major relaxing of scope. Up to 255 88 seaters, jet and turboprop lumped together.

 

[Fly-By-Cable]

Tool....Go F@@K yourself....

He is a psa pilot.

 

[8sugarsugar]

you'll see scope shift 737's to PSA/Eagle to replace legacy retirements with regional wages.....big hiring boom we all waited for, except not exactly what we expected

 

[paddlehigh]

He is a psa pilot.

That I am and I still don't care.

 

[SpauldingSmails]

So does anyone here have any thoughts/speculations/rumors about what would happen to Piedmont, PSA, and Eagle if/when this merger goes forward?

Yep. Smash it all together as one giant corn-studded turd, IPO it and hope for the best.

 

[BentOver]

AA/USAir may have solved their retirement/pilot shortage...If AA gets what they want some regionals will grow. There will be less mainline jobs..

In the end, everytime one of these majors goes bankrupt, the 121 industry gets dragged down. Pilot pay at AA will be cut, scope will givin up, regionals will grow and the future for pilots will suck more.

The legacies have found their way around scope. Go bankrupt....

Soon, regionals will be flying 717, 737 style a/c for half the pay of a legacy..It'll take just a few more bankruptcies...

I predict AA will slash their costs so much that there will be other majors who will cry poor due to not being able to compete will AA..In turn contracts will be gutted in one way or another

 

[8sugarsugar]

there is just no way the legacies will replace retirements with legacy wages.

Interesting to see what will happen to SWA when the "new AMR/US air" has PSA and Air wis operating 737's and paying FO's 27,0000/year starting

5-10 years

Don't believe scope will get broken? The old retirement age guys will do whatever to serve themselves. they don't care about the young guys, they just care about their pensions.

 

[ex j-41]

There is nothing wrong with regionals flying 737's or larger. As long as the wages are comparable to other airlines. Southwest may be out of reach but spirit/allegiant/.... Might not be.

 

[Jetjockey]

there is just no way the legacies will replace retirements with legacy wages.

Interesting to see what will happen to SWA when the "new AMR/US air" has PSA and Air wis operating 737's and paying FO's 27,0000/year starting

5-10 years

Don't believe scope will get broken? The old retirement age guys will do whatever to serve themselves. they don't care about the young guys, they just care about their pensions.

Someone is living in alternate reality. Good luck with that prediction. If you were willing to fly a 737 for regional wages, you are a bigger fool than you portray here.

 

[Varmint]

Someone is living in alternate reality. Good luck with that prediction. If you were willing to fly a 737 for regional wages, you are a bigger fool than you portray here.

AHHH, you mean like getting hired and working for $25 or $30 an hour for the first year at a US Major and not making more than a regional captain for at least 3-5 years. I would call that flying a 737 for regional wages. Southwest and Delta are the only 2 airlines that come close to holding up the bar for the first few years of pay at US majors.

 

[ex j-41]

Or going to US Airways and getting stuck on the e190 and never making more than $55k.