Originally Posted by Andy

A recession is CONFIRMED with 2 quarters of economic contraction. Historical data only confirms the contraction.

Companies make decisions based on analyst estimates all of the time. And the economy of Houston and Texas are still heavily dependent on oil. Google 'energy capital of the world'.

You're not complaining about the merger???? You've done that several times in this thread. As far as displacements, you may not think it's necessary but the suits in Willis Tower disagree with you. What you or I think about the displacements doesn't matter and it's not the union's job to assign aircraft and crews to domiciles.