Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I would disagree with almost everything in the post. I have had personal conversations with some of the people directly involved on the management side on these type issues. There was virtually nothing we could have offered to convince management to merge Compass or Comair or ASA with out list. Keep in mind we don't control the list. Management does. They have a very defined agenda and operating a airline with all the pilots on one bargining agreement and one agent is their absolute worst nightmare. They want to divide and keep the groups divided in as many groups as possible. Why do you think they did not merge ASA and Comair when it would seem to make business sense from every aspect you could look at? That also brings up the biggest failure of the ASA and Comair MEC's when they did not demand a single carrier ruling from the NMB. That would have been almost a lock given the Eagle decision.
we will have to take you at your word.
I do wish ALPA would ask the question and publish the response. It would help resolve a lot of debate on a data point that no one seems to nail down outside of anecdotal accounts. Published accounts indicate our MEC supports the current 76 seat limit, so it stands to reason why we don't ask about change.
As for Comair & ASA, a merger could not fix their problem. The portfolio would have gone from 13 to 12. Eagle managed to wrap up their whole portfolio, which is huge, but it did not fix their problem either.