Originally Posted by rickair7777

I doubt DAL will get involved.

As far as putting their contract flying at risk...

Probably not an issue at this point, since RAH just owns shares (albiet a lot of them) in F9.

If they take over operational control of F9 (combine SOC's, merge pilot lists, etc) then a major partner could make a case about non-compete.

I'm 100% certain that BB is smart enough to not dump his gravy-train codeshares and go Indy on us.

It will be interesting to see how the scope issue works, since both F9 and RAH have scope. This might be the first application of that new federal law which requires equitable mergers.

It's worth noting that the law specifies alleghany-mohawk procedures, but makes no provision to recognize the inherent superiority of mainline pilots. F9 might get "equitably" force-integrated into RAH. F9 FO's might lose their ability to bid F9 captain, they might have to go back to an RJ. Gonna be some interesting negotiations here...