Originally Posted by
sailingfun
If management were to make a choice tomorrow to merge all the regional airlines into Delta there would not be a staple. The list would have to follow ALPA merger policy. That without any question would lead to binding arbitration.
do you really think an arbitrator would put the regional pilots ahead of many mainline pilots? I could see them throwing the very senior regional guys a bone and mixing them in with the mainline guys. But of course I think along with that would come a very long fence preventing them from holding any mainline captain seat before they were retired.
Management will never want to integrate the regionals into the mainline. We will have to force it. And the only way you will get the mainline pilots onboard is to accept you will get a staple.