Originally Posted by
tsquare
Sure it could. What happens if one carrier "buys" the other. Then if the acquiring carrier strikes a deal with it's unions to throw the hammer down on the acquiree for certain concessions. The acquiree is put into a holding company, and the assets siphoned off a-la SWA/AT. It could easily be done as there would be no "merger". Both M/B and ALPA merger policy would be then effectively skirted.
Uh, tsquare, that's completely incorrect. Fragmentation protections that are included in most every airline pilot contract specifically prohibits doing what you claim is "easily done." AirTran was the outlier because their scope section didn't include fragmentation protections.
What you claim is easily done is actually no longer possible.
Carl