Originally Posted by rickair7777

If UA gets 250 new planes in two years, B6 pilots will not help staff those.

Merger announcement=> regulatory approval => financial consumation is 1-2 years.

Then JCBA, another 1-2 years.

Then SLI, another 1-2 years.

SLI will need to be complete before B6 pilots can fly UA airplanes (and vice versa). So realistically 4-ish years, maybe more. AS+HA is currently looking like maybe more.