Originally Posted by
aa73
Vortexx:
1) USAir is not buying AA or its assets: both airlines are merging - unlike AA's asset acquisition of TWA. Two different scenarios.
2) AA will be the surviving carrier, even though it will survive thanks to the strength of the two combined airlines.
3) APA will take over from USAPA as the union for all AA/US pilots. USAir pilots will not "run the seniority list". Neither will AA pilots. That is what arbitration is for.
4) Nobody is screwing anybody: the SLI will be decided in arbitration. Exactly the way it should have been done with AA/TWA.
As much as you would love to see AA pilots get the shaft, you're too late to the party: we have been getting shafted for over 10 years now, thanks to the top talent management that has pretty much ruined a once-great airline.
Let's hope this merger ends up the way DL/NW did.
You're using common sense in point 1, but that is not the "official" story. Bankruptcy was filed on the "legitimate grounds." These legitimate grounds nullify your point as arbitrators will aw knowledge files court documents.