Originally Posted by
121again
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Originally Posted by 20sx
I'm afraid there's going to be a heavy cost for lots of new flying, ie a miserable merger.
I hope they don't go down that road but I have also heard merger rumblings.
Did you guys not take any sort of accounting class in school?
Why on earth would JO, the cheapest man in the industry want to absorb another pilot group.
No, he doesn't want some 15 year AE Captain, he wants a 2 year YV CA sitting next to a 1 year YV FO flying his metal. It doesn't get any cheaper than that.
If your still not following, let me break this down. If we merge, he absorbs the seniority of whichever group is merged with Mesa. That is much higher labor cost than a complete Mesa new hire FOs, and newly upgraded captains.