Originally Posted by alfaromeo

Before the conspiracy theories go too far here, just remember that management merges companies and labor merges seniority lists after the merger is announced. There never was a merger announced between DAL and either ASA or CMR so there was never ANY proposals about SLI methodologies by either side. I know that somehow the ASA and CMR MEC's got it into their heads that they could force a merger by forcing the beginning of ALPA merger policy but they were wrong and the whole episode was a little bit of a joke. One could note that they never filed a petition for the two of them to be declared a single transportation system, maybe Ad Lib could enlighten us as to why that most logical step was never taken.

One more note, not one section of any major airline was rejected by any judge. Noting that scope was not rejected is quite misleading. If you negotiate changes, the rejection doesn't happen. Trying to assume that if no negotiations took place then no rejection would have occurred is just silly. Remember that every labor group that took it to a judge had their contracts rejected. 100%.

Trying to rewrite history to match your future assumptions doesn't make it true. All of this bunk about protecting military pilots and all the rest is just bunk. We didn't merge our lists because the companies weren't merged. It is as simple as that.