Any guesses to what will happen with the new hires after the merger? With AA hiring at the same time how will that factor in? Everyone assumes that the folks hired after the Dec merger close date will be slotted in by DOH but is that a certainty, or is APA looking to staple pretty much everyone on the US side below their own folks?

Any thoughts on if this integration will even go thru at all? They ran the east-west separate for years, closing in on a decade. Heck if this merger hadn't of happened, would they have kept east-west separate forever? Almost seems that way.