Originally Posted by sailingfun

If management costed it out and felt we can do the flying the last thing they would do is merge the feed. It would be much simpler and cheaper to let the feed contracts expire and grow the mainline. No merger nightmares and you add a bunch of first year employees happy to be hired verses multiple airlines employees showing up slinging lawsuits left and right. It would look exactly like the ongoing 717 program at Delta!

There are two major issues with your plan. First if history prevails they are not going to accept a staple. It will go to arbitration. Second you have to be able to do that flying at a competitive rate to the rest of the industry. If not you lose that flying and some of your mainline flying as feed dries up. You then have a smaller airline and lots of furloughed pilots.