Everyone needs to remember one thing. Management merges companies and pilots deal with the merger. Repeat that until it sinks in. Pilots can plan all they want for grand unifications, but unless they control the companies it is pie in the sky. Until that happens, it is untenable to have the current situation. Does anyone think we could just go to management and ask them to merge? They would laugh in your face. Their first question would "what will you give up for this?" If your answer is "nothing" then end of conversation. People need to come back to Earth on this subject. The current setup is a lawsuit waiting to happen. I cannot believe 12 MEC members were too dumb to realize this. Once more, who merges companies?