Originally Posted by BoilerUP

I understand a "conflict of interest" between Delta & Compass pilots - what I don't understand is why that's some kind of insurmountable obstacle.

There may have been some Compass pilots with a DOH before the most junior DAL/NWA pilot, but they also had no reasonable expectation to fly any airframe at Compass larger than the E175. As such, a staple with bump/flush fence protections for Compass captains would have been reasonable; I seem to recall a good number of Compass pilots advocating that very thing on aviation webboards prior to being cast out of DALPA.

Comair & Mesaba may have had the same union, but they weren't under the NWA-DALPA MEC like Compass was. That does mean something...

Do you think Compass pilots would rather have been stapled to the bottom of the DAL/NWA combined seniority list after their flying was accreted by Delta mainline, or sold to Hulas to be with new cousins TSA and GoJet like what actually went down?

How can one reasonably expect any union representation, ALPA or DPA or otherwise, to recapture small jet scope when the *best* possible scenario that will ever present itself wasn't acted on? It'll never get any easier, or any cheaper than Compass would have been...