Originally Posted by lolwut

What I meant is that, currently, these are 3 seperate pilot groups who had been previously intending to negotiate their own contracts.

Now, no pilot controls their own destiny as the others can overrule you. Sure, that will be good for after the merger, but in the meantime it means other airlines' pilot groups could essentially impose a contract on you.

Very extreme example: They negotiate that CRJ pay will double. In exchange for this, Q400 pay will be dropped to $5/hr. 1501+ of the pilots are CRJ pilots. Colgan doesn't fly a single CRJ, doesn't give a single yes vote, but they are still powerless to stop their pay from going to $5/hr.