Originally Posted by Timbo

History may repeat itself here. A few months before Delta bought Western, Western recalled all it's furloughed pilots and began hiring too. Not because they were short of pilots, but because they wanted more bodies on their list when it came time to negotiate a new seniority list.

One often heard phrase in 1986 was, "All you have to do to get hired at Western, is tell them you just got turned down at Delta!"