Originally Posted by
johnso29
Actually, no one won in the Delta/NWA merger. DAL had some guys lose out to later NWA hires, & NWA had some guys lose out to later DAL hires. You'll hear guys on both sides say they lost.
As to your question, was SWA not the stronger company vs ATA? Was American not the stronger company vs TWA?
People keep saying an independent union is not as strong as ALPA, their aren't really any cases or examples where that can be proven.
Legacy NWA has shrunk considerably more than legacy DAL. In almost all mergers and acquisitions, the name that is going to be abolished is the shrinking company. If NWA and DAL had merged today, then NWA would be much further down the list. ALPA merger policy doesn't consider these facts, that's why everyone thinks no one carrier won.