Let me get this straight...
For the past 10 years, the only way for airlines to become profitable was to SHRINK. So UAL goes from 10,000+ pilots to about 5,000.

Now, the only way for airlines to become profitable is to MERGE and EXPAND?

The only thing that Tilton and Parker want is to put a 3 groups of stark raving mad pilots at each others throats and to fight each other while the CEOs walk away with millions. They'll do their best to convince the pilots that the only way the merged company can survive is if they take further pay cuts and give up 100 seat scope.