Originally Posted by
rickair7777
No major has ever merged their regional FFD into mainline, that I recall. COMAIR probably came closest, but look where that got them.
There were serious talks of giving all the USAirways WO pilots mainline seniority numbers in the 2005/2006 time period. There were hundreds of furloughs on the street and the company was deep in bankruptcy, so there wasn't a whole lot of value. It never went anywhere though after the America West merger sucked up all the bandwidth.