5/2020 bid
12-17-2019 | 01:35 PM
#101
Line Holder
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From: Line bidding sucks!
12-17-2019 | 02:23 PM
#104
Line Holder
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Why keep your app up to date? If things get bad and Alaska fails, they get bought. Ever met anyone that left airline A to go to B and then B buys A the next week? Happed to more that a few, lost a lot of years of seniority.
12-18-2019 | 06:20 AM
#107
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
It happened to tranny but I don't think it could happen to AS. I don't think SW could actually afford to buy AS and then liquidate and transfer assets. Slots and gates allocated to AS are not owned by AS, and therefore would likely not automatically transfer to a successor.
Also AS is too big, couldn't hire and train pilots fast enough, and couldn't afford to buy AS and then park it while they slowly assimilate the assets.
While the SW pilots would be happy to spend billions of the shareholders money to pull of an end-run SLI staple job, their managers wouldn't, nor would their BoD or shareholders let them. The SW pilots would just have to live with a likely arbitrated SLI, per established precedent. Management doesn't care about their pilots THAT much.
Also AS has got to have successorship scope???
Also AS is too big, couldn't hire and train pilots fast enough, and couldn't afford to buy AS and then park it while they slowly assimilate the assets.
While the SW pilots would be happy to spend billions of the shareholders money to pull of an end-run SLI staple job, their managers wouldn't, nor would their BoD or shareholders let them. The SW pilots would just have to live with a likely arbitrated SLI, per established precedent. Management doesn't care about their pilots THAT much.
Also AS has got to have successorship scope???
12-19-2019 | 05:02 AM
#110
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From: Engines Turn or People Swim
I know how it was applied, but SW threatened to liquidate and part-out the airline if they didn't "voluntarily" accept a staple job.
My premise is that AS is to big (and expensive in this context) to liquidate... for the sole purpose of doing an end-run around Mccaskil-Bond just to give SW pilots an upper-hand (staple) in an SLI. Don't think SW management cares that much about how senior their legacy pilots are.
Presumably SW wanted to ditch the tranny 717's anyway. In the case of AS, *presumably* part of their intent would be to acquire a small-ish airbus subfleet to try it out for a while with an eye towards long-term diversification. If the max crashes had happened 5-8 years from now and grounded the majority of SW's fleet for 1+ years, they would be SOL (or at least in need of a big federal bailout).
My premise is that AS is to big (and expensive in this context) to liquidate... for the sole purpose of doing an end-run around Mccaskil-Bond just to give SW pilots an upper-hand (staple) in an SLI. Don't think SW management cares that much about how senior their legacy pilots are.
Presumably SW wanted to ditch the tranny 717's anyway. In the case of AS, *presumably* part of their intent would be to acquire a small-ish airbus subfleet to try it out for a while with an eye towards long-term diversification. If the max crashes had happened 5-8 years from now and grounded the majority of SW's fleet for 1+ years, they would be SOL (or at least in need of a big federal bailout).
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