Originally Posted by
Hedley
ALPA can ask other airlines to strongly consider hiring pilots from a failed airline, and many carriers have hired those people in the past, but ALPA doesn’t have the ability to make any demands. Breeze isn’t a union carrier. Since it is a start up they can hire who they want and dictate the terms of employment. After they get going the pilots can vote in a union and get started negotiating their first contract, but until then ALPA has no say in anything that Breeze does.
ALPA was/is trying to force the hand of the Department of Transportation hoping that the DOT would force Breeze to recognize the pilot contract of the airline who’s certificate Breeze was trying obtain. This is a more political process than a legal one. Clearly Breeze was concerned enough to abandon the effort to acquire the Compass certificate.