Originally Posted by
baseball
I am not suggesting anything. I am asserting as a matter of fact that ALPA knew just as the business analysts knew UAL would merge with CAL because of the logical synergies and UAL MEC wanted to insure it had the best possible leverage position it could to protect it's pilots.
CAL joined ALPA in 2000. That's 15 years ago. No one was talking about CAL and UAL merging. It was UAL and USAir that announced a merger in 2000. If that had happened UAL would never have been allowed to buy CAL. It would have been NWA buying CAL most likely.