Sailingfun, ALPA merger policy did contain DOH and was changed at the ALPA EC board meeting in 1991 by the United reps. This was done after the first try at merging UAL and AAA when the UAL mec saw what DOH with AAA would do to them. They knew that Management would try this merger again...and it did. Because of the UAL reps putting the change on the table and having the other(DAL,NWA) reps at the EC meeting go along with it, when the 2 merger committees from UAL and AAA met the UAL team sat down told the AAA guys to sit quietly while they were told "how the merger will happen". The change in merger policy was done for one reason only and that was to screw the pilots of AAA. I'm sorry you got "screwed" by the DAL guys but your statement of no mergers being done by DOH is just wrong. I was hired by ALLEGHENY...Allegheny merged with Lake Central and MOWHAWK(as in Allegheny-Mowhawk LPPs , yes we do know what says ...we wrote it) then became USAir and merged with PSA and Piedmont using DOH with fences and restrictions. Doh was the primary consideration in merging lists unless you were at a smaller carrier, you know Western,TWA,Empire....and then the other Big carrier ruled...just like UAL changing ALPA merger policy to remove DOH so that they wouldn't be "harmed" by the smaller but more senior AAA.
Last edited by War Eagle 83; 03-25-2008 at 08:39 AM.