Originally Posted by
slowplay
I did my own research. What you say doesn't add up.
Delta didn't own Mesaba until October 30, 2008. That's the first time that there was even the possibility of a merger of the two carriers under the same ownership. Delta didn't get a Single Operating Certificate until December 31, 2009. Mesaba was sold July 1, 2010. Your "years" had exactly 6 months to realistically take place.
The Delta/Northwest merger hit the presses in spring of 2008 - almost three years ago.
That was also roughly the timeframe when the Comair pilots and the Comair MEC began considering "Will Comair, Mesaba, and Compass merge? What will that look like?"
So it is entirely permissible that he heard something from an ALPA rep "years ago"