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.
With how much groundwork seems to be done behind the scenes, I could see this one moving a little faster IF it is with United and IF a merger is indeed the game plan.