Originally Posted by
stinsonjr
Why "unfortunately"?
I am interested because I have been involved in mergers (non-airline - business and a non-profit) and I have a grasp of the operation difficulties these can create...and these are in things that do not have the capacity of wrecks and people dying. It always made me wonder about how this can be accomplished safely and in an efficient manner.
How did the TWA guys react to AA procedures, etc? Did they find the training more vigorous or less? Do the vanquished carriers have any input?
I couldn't agree more (with wrecks and killing people) I guess that's why I say "unfortunately". Since AA's ops specs are interwoven into the very soul of AA in every operational aspect, including training. It's impossible to take parts from both and make a better training environment because every change to AA's operation (including training) takes FAA approval, both an expensive and time consuming process. So, "unfortunately" TWA gets AA crammed into them, in the interest of standardization and speed of combining operations.
That's not to say that some of TWA's people had no input, but as old Abe Lincoln put it: "we will become all of one thing, or all of the other, but we will cease to be divided". In the case of airline mergers it means use ONE of the operating certificates, but not both. Unless you want to re-certify the airline.
I would think any veteran pilot going through another airline's training program would find some difficulties adjusting, but by and large I think most make it through just fine.