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Old 08-21-2009 | 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by ToiletDuck
Maybe someone can give me a heads up but did TWA have pilots of furlough with AMR? What about NWA/DAL? Any furloughs there prior to merger that would set some kind of precedence?

Unsure about these mergers, but one difference with the Republic/Midwest merger is that we were in contract negotiations and your pilots were unfurloughed just months ago to replace us.

TPG/BB tried to get Midwest pilots to agree to a new low in E190 wages before moving forward with the merger. They were trying to whipsaw Midwest against Republic.

After the Midwest E190 negotiations failed. TPG/BB moved to save on training costs before the merger.

This merger has been in the works for almost a year.
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