Originally Posted by
jethikoki
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.
For those too young to know the results of the AA buyout of TWA, there was an offset of a number of years of seniority for the senior TWA pilots. A good chunk of the junior TWA pilots then got stapled at the bottom of the seniority list.
The FA seniority list was a pure staple job. A TWA FA with 35 years seniority was stapled below the most junior AA FA with just a few months seniority.
As a result, Senators McCaskill and Bond got an amendment passed that prohibited a pure staple of mainlines from happening again.
Now, if you will excuse me, I need to rebandage the wound I just tore open.