Now that we know that the pilots have been promised an extra $87 million a year by Parker (that works out to an average of about $10,000 more per pilot per year), kinda makes me wonder whether the APA spokesperson cares about the network or just wants the $87 million a year, sort of a new variation on "Full Pay to the Last Day."
If the APA members were looking at a paycut of an additional $10k per year with the merger and were still banging the drum that the merger was necessary to bolster AA's network, they'd be a whole lot more believable.