Originally Posted by
Pilotbiffster
Let me try to walk you through it .. Airline A has no widebodies. Airline B has lots of widebodies. Widebodies pay more than narrowbodies. When Airline A and Airline B merge, Airline A's pilots now gain access to higher paying jobs. If you read through the Delta NWA ISL mediation, the number of widebodies was taken into account by the arbitrators.
More widebodies at the expensive of outsourcing narrowbodies is good for no one except some yahoos that can't get hired at a real airline.