Jamers

Colgan had some American execs checking out the Q400 the other day. Heard this from a buddy who flew them.

Colgan Pilot

Just gets me wondering, how more efficient is the Q400 than the ATR?

EagleDriver

Move forward on the legal front??? How can you challenge the fact that AMR owns Eagle's aircraft? AMR owns Eagle and everything about Eagle. If they desired, AMR could spin off the company called Eagle and give them nothing except employees and charge the new company for all the equipment they use.

AMR has played shell games for years with AA vs. Eagle. In the past the mainline was harmed financially by having to bear costs incurred by Eagle. It sounds like the pendulum is about to turn the other way and the Eagle MEC doesn't like the turn of events. Get used to it, it's just business.

bailee atr

The EMBs loans from the NDBB is under AE and the cosignee on the loan is AMR. So according to the bank it two separate entities.

bailee atr

As far as the q400s go, they were already taken for a test drive out of SJU a couple of years ago. Don't know why they would need to see them again?

buddies8

It is nothing. Nothing new except them AMR board will decide in may, to bad that has been happening since last may a no decision yet. the MEC ism not informing the membership of nothing official them company with the exception of two times in the past year has said nothing to anybody. But the MEC tell the media and us to ensure everyone that they the MEC are important and mgt is talking to them. the MEC at eagle are company lackeys. why would anyone want to negotiate there contract before it is due and a spinoff is imminent as the MEC says. would you not want to wait til after the spinoff and see how things pan out since whatever you negotiate the spinoff will happen anyhow.

But the MEC is proactive, they like to be first in line for concessions. Why has no other employee group at eagle been approached for negotiations and concession? because they know the ALPA MEC at eagle is spineless and useless. I am waiting for the DFR to come out of this, because these people are so stupid it is just a matter of time.

buddies8

and they are involved in the C series visiting montreal constantly.

CrustyFE

Absolutely. Just business. The problem is for us Eagle drivers that we can't predict our very near future. Pretty frustrating and very stressful for some of us. The really crappy thing about the entire deal is that even if AMR just spun us off and liquidated the company, it would just be business. But it would be unprecedented in the regional airline industry to just close an entire airline without it going through bankruptcy. Well, some company has to set precedent I guess.

Liquidations is the inference I get from AMR keeping the planes after spinning us off. And the five year travel benefit sounds like a severance package. I hope I'm wrong.