Originally Posted by
Sink r8
Bar,
My understanding of that situation is that we met, and offered to work an arrangement, along the lines of a staple, but ASA/CMR wanted to force a ...PID (not sure what that stands for, but to force a declaration of a merger), to trigger the merger policy.
Is this not correct?
Regards,
Sink r8
Ask those who told you that to show you an Agenda, or meeting notes. I believe you will find they do not exist.
Contract this to the NWA merger. How did those first meetings go? Was an agreement reached on seniority? Were those meetings reported? Was a merger eventually completed, despite our differences on seniority?
Having experienced the NWA merger, I will leave it to you to decide whether that merger could have been derailed on the basis of a failure to reach an instant agreement on seniority. I submit (with no proof other than the results) that the Delta MEC looked at NWA and saw an airline they wanted to merge with. It was inconceivable that an airline with similar (and bigger) equipment would not be merged with.
In contrast, ASA and Comair had nothing the Delta MEC wanted. Small jets that paid less and would be flown below their seniority ... why fight for that?