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Currently, Southern Air is a seperate airline that is owned by Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, the holding company that owns Atlas Air, Inc. which is for whom the Atlas pilots fly. We are (hopefully) in the final stages of a merger that has been going on for about 5 years now. Once the merger is complete, Southern Air will be merged into Atlas Air, Inc. and will cease to have its own AOC and pilot group. As someone else pointed out above, a lot of people are hopeful that this will be completed within the next few months, but unfortunately there isn't a solid timeline. It could theoretically take another year or two to wrap this all up. Originally Posted by Broccoli Rob
I’ve been looking around the forum, but I’m still a little fuzzy on Atlas’s acquisition of Southern. Are they officially one company, or is Southern just a separate subsidiary? Meaning, if you get hired as an FO on the 73 are you later able to bid for an FO spot on the 74 after your seat lock is up, or do you have to upgrade on 73 first and then apply to Atlas separately?
So, once the merger is completed (whenever that may happen to be) then there will be one seniority list, and pilots will be able to bid whichever airframes that their seniority can hold (absent a seat lock). Until that time, Southern Air pilots can only bid/fly the 737/777, and Atlas Air pilots can only bid/fly the 767/747.