Originally Posted by JoePatroni

It wasn't 9/11 that precipitated the merger with ALPA movement, it was the "almost" merger with Delta that got the wheels turning. The sentiment at the time was, it looked like there was going to be mergers on the horizon and it would be much better to be an ALPA carrier than a non-ALPA carrier when they happened. The rest of that post is factual as I remember it.