Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
So on this
I’ve asked the NC about the lack of “fragmentation” pilots go with the planes”. As explained, it’s not helpful for NK pilots as it stands because NK leases almost of their planes. So there wouldn’t be a purchase to transfer assets solely, the planes are owned by a bank, not NK. So it’s not like UAL can come in and negotiate with NK to only buy the planes, because NK doesn’t own the planes. So as stated above, it’s not a scope provision that would help NK pilots with almost all planes being leased.
Now if UAL decides to say “hey we want to buy NK to merge”, furloughed pilots historically get placed at the bottom of the integrated seniority list, regardless of hire date, and will be integrated as a furloughed pilot on the new list below active pilots.
UAL is off the table as a merger partner. United already looked at the NK planes and its too time consuming and costly to reconfigure all the planes, especially since our seat supplier can barely keep up with our new planes and reconfiguring older planes, not to mention the debt and other integration issues.
Also with the Jetblue partnership, which was just granted full approval by the DOT, is going to be the focus going forward and not any acquisitions.