Originally Posted by
Wasatch Phantom
As I said in my post: "I'll admit up-front my knowledge of regional carriers is limited".
Then it is probably best that you refrain from posting things that simply are not true.
Bigotry and ignorance only get less becoming with the repeating.
The stupidity can be funny though. For a long time the D-ALPA response to nearly any and everything was "Comair pilots will get date of hire." They rolled this tired scarecrow out to justify kicking Compass out of our MEC. Of course they forgot that even the NWA pilots did not get date of hire, so as our Chairman explained his theory that Compass / Comair / whoever, would get date of hire the NWA guys started shouting, Comair? Comair! then the rest of what they said can't be repeated here. But I guess it worked ... my yard boy wanted to go from $70 to $90 per mow. I told him, "if I paid you $90 Comair pilots would get date of hire, I can not do that." He looked at me quizzically, cocked his head sideways and took my 70 bucks.
For the real answer, look below. Mergers and who gets to merge is part of our PWA.
... and please understand, I am not calling you stupid ... I'm just characterizing the lie that keeps getting repeated as dumb. Particularly so since the some of those who started the stories are now having to deal with the backlash created ... called the DPA. Their frankenstein came home for dinner.