Originally Posted by NuGuy

AirTrans fragmentation language.

NOTHING in there about furloughs or replacement aircraft.

Plain and simple. If a bulk of the aircraft leave, their management negotiates a shot of them following the aircraft.

This is NOT related to the TA. The 717s are coming if we vote this thing up or down, since that's the only way management gets more 76 seaters.

"F. Acquisition of Disposition of Assets 1. In the event of a Substantial Asset Sale, as defi ned hereunder, the Company agrees that it will undertake its best and all commercially reasonable efforts to require the air carrier purchaser to offer employ-ment to that number of pilots of the AirTran Pilots' Master Seniority List whose identity shall be determined consistent with the seniority provisions they then enjoy, which number of pilots entitled to such employment offer shall be the average monthly pilot staffi ng actually utilized in the operation of the transferred assets over the twelve (12) months prior to the employment offers and to negotiate, and to arbi-trate under Allegheny-Mohawk Section 13 any differences regarding the identity or number of transferring pilots that may arise with the air carrier purchaser and the integrate the two (2) pilot groups in ac-cordance with ALPA Merger Policy if applicable or otherwise under Sections 3 and 13 of Allegheny-Mohawk Labor Protective Provi-sions (using the applicable procedures in Paragraph E.2., above). For the purposes of this provision, a “Substantial Asset Sale” means the sale and/or assignment in a single transaction or a series of related transactions over a twelve (12) month period to a certifi cated air car-rier, other than in the ordinary course of business, of that number of aircraft that, net of asset purchases or acquisitions, over the twelve (12) months prior to the effective date of the transaction(s) produce more than thirty (30) percent of scheduled block hours. a. At such time that a transaction amounting to a Substantial As-set Sale is being fi nalized, the Company shall, on a confi dential basis, verbally notify the Association of any such Substantial Asset Sale prior to its being fi nalized (when possible at least ten (10) days prior to its being fi nalized), and the Company will solicit the recommendations of the Association.