There may be a little politics, but it is mostly about the money. Sokol is the head bean counter and he thinks it costs more beans to have separate operations. The union contract did not require Savannah to close, just the pilots to be assimilated. The problem I see is that most of the ground personnel who were really good at running the big Gs have refused the move and NJA operations is at the minimum going to have a time period of lots of mistakes in the operations side that cost a lot more beans and maybe some customer loyalty (more beans) if the problems persist. I was hoping at least all the schedulers would make the move and teach the NJA folks a thing or two, but it appears that isn't going to be the case.