Originally Posted by poostain

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That would be expected when you merge with a company with that has 258 narrow body aircraft and 62 wide body aircraft. Then you shed 24% of those wide body aircraft (62-15 cargo 747)and 20% of the narrow body fleet (68 original DC9's -52). Every body moves down you are fat with pilots, you don't hire for years and pilots move to bases they deem more desirable which in the case of this merger appears to be LAX, ATL and SLC. I would say SEA but since it's not a hub and all

Just to be fair the original Delta pilots did the same thing to the original Western pilot bases. It is what it is.