Originally Posted by EskimoJoe

There is nothing contradictory is my statement. They don't have to merge these operations and Tilden has already hinted at doing that. If you think they are going to roll over and give you Delta's contract plus just to get to a JCBA you are smoking crack. You guys obviously have no idea who you're dealing with. No W2 wage earners are going to dictate a damn thing to these people. Tilden will happily Whip Saw before that happens. So to say that it's up to the Alaska pilots to decide if work rules and scope are unimportant is ridiculous. What are you going to do about it? Strike? Sure. That's going to happen...