because employees are concerned about their job - those cities weren't and haven't been DL staffed BW stations for years.
clearly not, do you understand how seniority works?
DL employees like others are interested in what happens with their jobs and DL has done as good as or better than average job of protecting DL employee jobs.
back on the drugs again eh?
The sole reason why AA is "insourcing" airport work now is because they are grossly overstaffed and insourcing is an easier process than laying off people.
what a hot bunch of horse s**t. AA isn't going to add a ton of cost just so they don't have to lay people off.
They may hold onto that work long term but it is a given that AA's overall staffing will come down; their labor costs were up well above the industry average - along with WN. AA cannot sustain that kind of personnel cost growth. For now, the short term growth is to tolerate some cost creep... but UA did the same thing until the cost creep made them significantly uncompetitive - and $100K per person and $200 million per workgroup packages have to be initiated.
The biggest indicator of how much insourcing or outsourcing will be done is the fleet plan; flat domestic mainline growth and the replacement of older aircraft is a strong indication of little overall growth in the size of the mainline workforce.
Fortunately for DL employees, the mainline fleet is growing and DL is using its maintenance capabilities to operate a predominantly "out of warranty" fleet.
