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07-25-2020, 01:56 PM

#5441

buddies8

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40 percent of 2019 is the flying. Reduced west and east coast domestic due to JetBlue and Alaska codeshare.

07-25-2020, 06:04 PM

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DoNoHarm

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Originally Posted by buddies8

40 percent of 2019 is the flying. Reduced west and east coast domestic due to JetBlue and Alaska codeshare.

JetBlue is the new sweetheart regional for AA. Instead of 145's, passengers fly on an Airbus.

07-25-2020, 06:54 PM

#5443

Happyflyer

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Originally Posted by Outof410

Heard a rumor AA is going to cut flights back again, any truth to this?

Not a rumor, said they would on their Q2 earnings call.

07-25-2020, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by DoNoHarm

JetBlue is the new sweetheart regional for AA. Instead of 145's, passengers fly on an Airbus.

A regional that pays a decent wage, flies its own planes, isn’t in a race to the bottom, etc. Sounds like progress for the industry.

07-26-2020, 01:23 AM

#5445

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Originally Posted by copy

A regional that pays a decent wage, flies its own planes, isn’t in a race to the bottom, etc. Sounds like progress for the industry.

AA leadership said all along it didn’t make sense to furlough in October. The “JetBlue Pilots” part was silent.

07-26-2020, 06:12 PM

#5446

sanicom3205

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Originally Posted by copy

A regional that pays a decent wage, flies its own planes, isn’t in a race to the bottom, etc. Sounds like progress for the industry.

Uhhhh, nah. Because our contract sucks, they can pretty much give our flying to another company. That ain’t progress from an AA pilots eyes. If codesharing were protected with something similar to a scope clause, maybe it could be okay.

If the industry progressed along this path, AA would do international widebody flying (with some narrow body 321XLR flying), while other carriers fed our network with domestic narrowbody flying. Comparing JetBlue pay rates to our group 2 rates, and I can tell you which I prefer.

07-26-2020, 07:26 PM

#5447

dera

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Originally Posted by sanicom3205

Given how poorly AA does flying international widebody, I doubt this will ever be the case.

07-26-2020, 08:08 PM

#5448

sanicom3205

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Originally Posted by dera

Given how poorly AA does flying international widebody, I doubt this will ever be the case.

A smaller international presence doesn’t mean that the widebody flying we have is “poor”.

Besides, how’s widebody flying going for DAL and UAL these days?

07-26-2020, 08:20 PM

#5449

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Originally Posted by sanicom3205

A smaller international presence doesn’t mean that the widebody flying we have is “poor”.

Besides, how’s widebody flying going for DAL and UAL these days?

As Vasu said, the first year AAL made profit from international flying was 2019.