Section 1 C. will not apply to prevent the Company or any Company affiliate from 40 acquiring control of a domestic air carrier that operates aircraft other than permitted aircraft types (a domestic air carrier that the Company or any Company affiliate acquires control of is referred to for purposes of Section 1 D. 8. as an “acquired airline”) and operating such acquired airline pending a merger of the Company and the acquired airline, provided that:
a. the Company agrees to operationally merge with the acquired airline and become a single corporation, a single carrier under the Federal Aviation Act and a single transportation system under the Railway Labor Act, with a single air carrier certificate, a single pilot class or craft, not later than six months after the later of:
1) the effective date of issuance of a final and binding integrated pilot seniority list, or
2) the effective date of a single bargaining agreement

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So, if say Alaska were to outsource 757 flying (or E190, A380 ... whatever non-permitted aircraft you choose since their scope fails to bind Alaska Group holding compan(ies) in any way) then we would merge with whatever that operation was IF they wanted to operate that as Company Flying for Delta. The same language that compelled the Company to merge Northwest applies to Alaska and would apply to Skywest.

What is more likely to happen is that Alaska's outsourced 100 seat operation would simply be terminated and Delta would perform that flying with our own equipment and contractors that operate permitted aircraft.

As an aside, during the Northwest merger there were theories that Delta's pilot had a nefarious plan to take NW's fleet and dump the pilots, or operate NW as an alter ego while slowly pulling down the operation. Those rumors would have been easily silenced by simply reading the Delta PWA.

Non Permitted Aircraft = merger.

In my opinion, it is silly to discriminate among ALPA members because one operates an airplane with more than 76 seats and the other does not, but that's the one member is better than the other member language we've codified.

The Comair pilots should have bought the DC9 fire trainer from their airport and gifted it to their management ... illogical, but that's how divide preferred from non preferred members in our union. Comair's gone and ASA's code has been redistributed and is operated by their competitors. Pinnacle's acquisition came with huge pay cuts and scope which is void if they try to renegotiate their pay. ... quite a different outcome than the result of Delta's acquisitions of NWA, Pan Am, Western, et. al., where acquisition meant better pay, bidding and career opportunities. Sucks not to have a single solitary 77 seat jet on the property. (in ASA's case a 120 seat had just left the property and remained in their contract). Completely different outcomes for ALPA members.

Yet, if Delta furloughs we flow down to these airplanes. So, what then? Would a Delta pilot flying for Compass be left out of a merger? Of course not ... just seems stupid that we discriminate this way.