Or it could do with the soon to be passed pension reform that will eliminate defined pensions for future employees as required by Congress. The bill that appears to be headed for a vote has a clause for AMR and CAL to eliminate future employees defined pensions and a 10 year funding period for those left. Scab Air and Delta would get 20 years, freeze benefits and eliminate future Scabs/employees from a defined plan. This of course would require a re-write of the contract for most unions, or just a formality for the twu, followed by a "we saved jobs" party, more press releases, pajama parties, and cries of "if you don't like it quit." 😛
Did the Pilot's Open Up Their Contract?
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From what I understand, Republic (one of its seemingly dozens of subsidiaries) flies E170s for UA and DL; UAL is flying them on routes like ORD-IND and longer thin routes similar to those flown by AE's CRJ700s.
As much as I loved the 717, I could get used to an RJ like the 190/195, provided that it features two or three rows (6-9 seats worth) of F. I can live without First on 150-300 mile routes (typically an hour or less) but I'm tall (and kinda wide) so the bigger chair really helps on those 800-1000 mile flights - those can easily add up to 3 to 4 hours onboard counting boarding, ground hold, flight time, DFW penalty box time and deplaning.
Certainly NOT mainline!
What would be amazing is if the unions and AA management worked together to figure out a way to introduce Embraers to the mainline fleet. Surely, you're all SMART enough to figure a win-win-win (employees-management-passengers) scenario!!!
