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Originally Posted by Realms09  Is it always the case that the union has a member on the Board of Directors? |
Not always, but it's quite common with mainline ALPA carriers.
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Originally Posted by wheelsup domain: newglobalairline.com
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Hilarious. Management knew/planned this 2 1/2 months ago. |
Oh, I think they've known about it far longer than that. You think Richard Anderson came on board last year just to run another airline? No way. I'd bet anything that the Board coaxed him over by offering him the chance to preside over the biggest airline merger in history. This has been in the works for a long, long time.
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Originally Posted by Maximillian_Jenius How did DL get around the exclusive rights of Northwest 's asian rights? I believe Japan and asia said that only planes under the operating cert of NWA could utilize that benefit. |
That's an urban legend. As long as NWA survives in a merged carrier and isn't parted out in small pieces, the Asian rights are transferrable to the surviving carrier.
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Originally Posted by Craig_Davidson any chance of yet another Delta livery? To incorporate a little bit of NWA? Much like US and West did? |
Screw that! They need to go back to the classic widget. Now this was a livery:
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Originally Posted by Doug Taylor Arbitration. Yeah whatever. |
Unfortunately, I think that's inevitable now unless the new DAL management agrees to give them a hell of a lot to settle it amicably. I like Captain Moak, but he's pissed off the cobras now. Dumb move. And Captain Prater is even dumber (something that he's quite consistent at, it seems) for allowing this to happen. Allowing one ALPA MEC to settle a unilateral contract that leaves out another ALPA MEC in a merger is suicide. Apparently Prater didn't learn any lessons from the AAA/AWA abortion that he also allowed to happen. Anyone want to place bets on how long it will take for the NWA guys to get uSAPa 2.0 started up? Stupid, stupid, stupid!
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Originally Posted by wheelsup This is America West/US Airways all over again. |
Oh, I think that's a cakewalk compared to what we're about to see with this merger.