Stealthh21 said:AA is not about to sell eagle to make some money!!!
oh well
And you know this how? AMR sold SABRE which was a CASH COW not so many years ago, I think '98. In the 80's Bob Crandall was one meeting away from selling American Airlines and only having SABRE as the mainstay of AMR corp. As far as not selling Eagle, Eagle has been reorganized since 9/11 to facilitate the split. They put the MIA base on the Executive Certificate. Recently they have moved all of the dispatch functions out to San Juan.
Perhaps the Domestic side of Eagle is relatively safe from Sale but the individual pilots are not. If a part of Eagle is sold the pilots would go with the portion that was sold. When Executive was on the verge of being sold back in 2002 the MEC stated that they would insist on a "system flush" if Executive were sold off. A system flush means that every pilot is given the opportunity to rebid based on their seniority without regard to seat locks or any other restrictions. If you are a new hire at Eagle you would be at risk of being sold off with the Executive operation. The orginizational changes that were made would make it very easy to chop executive out of the system.
If you think this is unlikely, consider that in 2002 it had gotten so far as a buyer was announced, a CEO was named, Executive Airline emplyee travel benefits on AA were layed out in writing...it was very close. The deal was scrapped at the last minute.
If you don't have much flight time I would say go to Eagle as you don't really have much too loose. If you get a better offer..."EASY VICTOR, EASY VICTOR, EASY VICTOR!"
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