Originally Posted by
FlyGuy2021
If there was a purchase and merger, the seniority list merger would likely be with an owned regional, not the mainline carrier. It would be much, much cheaper this way. Why put pilots on the list at higher pay levels when Delta can buy them and merge them with Endeavor, or AA with Envoy. Most pilots would not take it and leave, which would be fine. No way a legacy airline would ever merge senioirty lists again. It is massively expensive for the parent airline to do this.
There are plenty of street hire pilots available (or there will be soon enough) that will start at year 1 pay. In a purchase, pilots are not a benefit, but rather a liability. They purchase gate space/slots, airplanes, engines, etc... They don't care about employees.
Huh? why the hell would they merge with a regional? LOL as airline management, if you WANT 200+ A320's which are almost impossible to come by and the numbers work and beneficial to the bottom line they will do it. A legacy like United for example has deep pockets. If it works, they have a deal with creditors and they can get all those A320's they will pull the trigger. The merging of lists will come down to ALPA policy. Makes no sense to send 3k A320 pilots to a regional list LOL Managament is not sitting there and saying "gee should we merge 3k pilots into our 17k list or not" LOL if the numbers work and they get all that utilization and all that revenue and boost that bottomline, thats what will happen. Thats the case for any company