I'm not sure if/when/how any unification of the 3 W/Os will ever happen, but some of you guys need to understand that mergers between the 3 W/Os are not all about the pilots and the aircraft.

A big function performed by the regionals is providing all the ground services at all the outstations. Envoy has people at places we don't fly to, and we've gone to many places that were handled by Envoy, PDT, heck even TSA ground crew.

When the number crunchers start calculating their cost savings from merging our companies, the decision will be based on if there are any savings to be made by putting all those personnel under one management team. Since there is very little overlap between any of the 3 companies in that regard, it would be hard to see much saving coming from merging any of us. The transition and training costs could easily overwhelm it.