Originally Posted by
JobHopper
You can if you are willing to resurrect the Red/Green wars of NWA. Also, don't forget that any newhires after such a decision would be considered Delta hires and thus outside the fence. At some point they would begin jumping the Alaska guys into the widebodies, depending on how things were structured. There were repeated arbitrations up North as the fleet mixes changed. It was a mess.
The Roberts Rule created a great deal of animosity at NWA. I suggest we avoid a repeat.
Not to mention throw down fist fight in the chief pilots office at late as 1999! When I got hired I was told the quickest way to start a fight was to walk into the lounge at the training hotel, and yell "Red Book Green Book". It would be bad for a very long time to go back to that play book.