Originally Posted by
southbound
Seems like if we have all learned anything in the past ten years it would be in our best interest to look out for PILOTS and not individual companies. These companies, CAL and UAL are are mere shells of what we professional pilots signed up for.
If there is a merger lets look out for US, the PILOTS, regardless of which carrier we came from. Look what all the fighting at USAir/AmWest has done for those individual pilots. Ego and nothing else has cost those guys tens of thousands of dollars.
Maybe it's time to start negotiating that master list NOW, between ALPA groups, so that no matter who merges with who we have a single list from which we can generate the list of the new merged carrier.