[QUOTE=tzskipper;2510992]It's a shame there isn't a "ALPA merger policy for dummies" book available to read...

Knowledge of the current policy covering ALPA-ALPA mergers would be a powerful thing.

This thread should close.

Well that tells you how blind you are. Alpa Alpa is a guide line not a rule. Mergers of NWA and DAL, CAL and UAL were mergers done by similar companies with equal footing. VX could not buy AS, they are by no stretch of the numbers, equal in any fashion. VX was a struggling start up and AS a 85 year old airline with the best balance sheets in the industry. Kill the thread though... I have to be wrong