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.
It can be avoided by structuting the SLI to account for it on the front end. But no way in he11 will they get full relative widebody bidding rights. That would cause far more animosity or whatever you want to call it by screwing the far larger group. A long, wide, tall, barbed wire fence would be far more desireable for labor relations in that case, even if it wasn't perfect.