Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Except that your statement is a half truth.

Strategically ALPA does control the seniority list. ALPA negotiated scope defines who is a Delta pilot and what Delta flying the Delta seniority list pilots perform. ALPA, as a labor union decides when it will make single carrier petitions to the NMB to seek a single seniority list among carriers.

Yes, the Company hires who they want to. The Company also has equal access to the NMB.

But to illustrate my point, if ALPA has nothing to do with it, why then were we able to leverage unity with the Northwest pilots to improve our pay and working conditions? If ALPA's cooperation was not needed, then why?

The full truth is that ALPA sits on the other side of the table and once a pilot is hired has a great deal of control over how that pilot's work is defined. ALPA was founded specifically to protect seniority and protect pilots from alter ego replacement (which they called out of senioirty) replacement back in the early days.