Originally Posted by baseball

I don't see UAL as interested in squashing NAI. I see our management, at the present time as more interested in them co-existing. Their presence will help management justify downward pressure on lowering the cost of pilot labor. NAI's existence hurts all major US airlines in terms of their union's ability to argue for and justify higher wages.

If NAI is doing the same job for less, management will be keen to point that out in negotiations. Just like comps when shopping for a house. or comps when paying taxes on a house.

When NAI gets a bigger and more threatening footprint, management may be forced to act, but like so many other airlines, if they get a strong foothold it may be hard to force them off the edge of the cliff.