Ok. That makes more sense.

 

I was a 737 captain at USAir in 2000 and the UAL meager was supposed to be a slam dunk thanks to Stephen Wolf, who was specifically hired to complete it. The DCA operation was going to sold to the owner of the BET network along with several other route divestures. Having 12 years seniority at the time, things were looking pretty good for a DOH combined list.

Right before 9-11 DOJ said “no” and that was that. Never one to waste a good crisis USAir proceeded to park 110 aircraft permanently and lay-off 1,800 pilots following 9-11. Management stated they had no “Plan B” without the UAL merger. Two bankruptcies later and back to reserve first officer I had enough and “retired” as they were literally months from Chapter 7 until America West bought them with their airline stimulus money at the time.

All great reasons can be found for mergers from the participants and plenty of people can find a threat in it and try to put the brakes on it. It’s not over til it’s over.

 

Do you have any specific examples of the projections? It seems two faced. On APC many Spirit pilots seems unhappy with the merger. Every time I jumpseat or have a jumpseater Spirit pilots seem extremely happy. It’s clearly mixed feelings but I don’t know where the majority opinion lies.

The thought of applying to a certain legacy based on base location had crept into my mind after ORD closing and the winter excitement but now? No way. I am pretty happy and cautiously optimistic we can both benefit from each other contracts. But I was wrong once so I could be wrong a second time.

 

I can assure everyone in this thread that it’s not just congressional democrats questioning the efficacy of this merger. I’m 7+ years at NK and I’m not convinced it’s a good thing.

 

This merger brings nothing but a crap sammich. My life won’t be better because of it only worse. The fact that mgmt has been planning on it for who knows how long probably explains why the last year they didn’t do crap to improve the operational problems besides implementing Bendcon. NK pilots gonna get shafted by Biffledouche

 

Gotta love the govt snooping and complaining about 2 airlines (efficient and profitable ones, minus covid crap) business decisions and what they want is always rich. The most fiscally irresponsible people trying to control and alter businesses from getting better. Merger or not, fares will be up because everyone is licking their wounds from...wait for it...when the GOVT shutdown travel and cost the airlines billions; not to mention crude over $120/barrel and climbing.

 

Apes strong together

They have tried to address the meltdowns on multiple fronts. Were you here for the holiday pay? That solved a lot of the problems. Saying they’ve done nothing is a lie. They’ve doubled the CS staff.

 

They hired XXX number of crew schedulers! Because they lost almost as many!

 

6 hours and counting trying to get ahold of scheduling today.

 

Why? Email the chief pilot on duty and wait for the callback/email.