Originally Posted by
texaspilot76
Another reason I forgot to mention: AMR desperately wants APA to relinquish scope, which fortunately, APA has not ceded ground to. A merger or aquisition of US Airways would give AMR the scope relief they want.
As far as the labor side, yes, it would be a god forsaken turd pile of a mess, especially knowing how numbskulled these US Airways East pilots are. If a deal were to occur, it might go down as an aquisition to keep the Airways pilots from screwing up the integration. I just hope that if any of this does comes to fruition that they will integrate PSA/ Piedmont into American Eagle using the ALPA merger policy for seniority integration.
Personally, I think this is a VERY expensive and risky way to deal with AA scope. It would seem to be akin to buying the entire McDonalds conglomerate just to get their secret recipe for 'special sauce'.
Anything is possible, I suppose, but additonal clues to that would be in the APA's CBA language regarding mergers/acquisitions and feeder stipulations.