Originally Posted by
TalkTurkey
Can alpa-to-alpa carriers be stapled? I thought not, although if the pukish regional agrees to that then I guess it's possible.
Check out the McCaskill-
Bond amendment. After what happened to TWA in the AA buyout one mainline cannot staple the other. As far as a mainline buying a regional I would say yes but not very likely unless it would be in the best interest of mainline pilots or the mainline.
Back in the Comair days ALPA did not have a good enough merger policy between a mainline and a regional so a change was needed to clarify any buyout between a mainline and a regional. Clarify as in make it more advantages to the mainline or mainline pilots. It was also necessary to change/update DAL pilots contract as they used to have in their contract that only DAL pilots could operate DAL owned equipment. ALPA and mainline must protect their 2 class system at all costs regardless of what is right or wrong.