Originally Posted by
aquagreen73s
In application to a hypothetical JBLU-AA merger, 49 U.S.C. 42112 which is McCaskill-Bond in statute, will be of little help to the JetBlue pilots. You need to read the actual language, and then consider the mechanics of how a group of 2000 pilots or so who are unrepresented are going to fare against a union of 10,000 pilots. Regardless of which management takes over, the JBLU pilots have zero protections in the form of a collective bargaining agreement (think, minimum fleet and fragmentation), you willl have the airline of all entities representing you (read the statute!) against the APA, nor will you even get to vote on a union as the percentage of the pilots represented by the APA in the combined company will exceed 65% of the total pilot group. By the time you got to an arbitration, there wouldn't be anything left; every one of you would be on the street. Don't believe me? Look at Midwest Express.
You sound like one of those hopeless US Airways East pilots.
I could look at Midwest Express all day and your argument would still make no sense. I doubt we would outsource all of our flying out to you guys for years before we merge.
We're not TWA and they made the McCaskill-Bond so you guys couldn't do that again (yes, I've read it). We would legally just need one lawyer to represent our pilot group. Ask someone smart about it before you respond to that.
A senior line holder will still be a senior line holder. A reserve guy will still be a reserve guy. An illogical AA pilot will still be an illogical AA pilot. Please tell me you're a reserve FO and I'll be senior to you.