Originally Posted by
Carlsbad
I think it will be a good thing for both airlines and both pilot groups. There are some things in our contact that are better than Alaska’s and vice versa. Overall our narrow body compensation is pretty similar, so it’s not like one group is undercutting the other. All the guys I know over there think they need big improvements in their contract, just like we need big improvements in ours.
The respective contracts are mostly irrelevant (scope aside) in a codeshare, you won't be cherry-picking each other's contracts unless there's an actual merger.