Originally Posted by
pilot64golfer
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.
Not only that, but one of UAL ALPA's greatest fears was a merger with US Airways---both in 2001 and 2010. Given that particular threat, the last thing UAL ALPA would have wanted is a merger policy that was based primarily on longevity.
It's pretty amazing that baseball is able to gather selective facts from differing points on the timeline and yet coalesce them into a narrative that just happens to match his perceptions, no?