Tell us something about your pilot group and the WA and PA pilots, since you like to stick your nose in other people's business. Your credibility -> ZERO!
Your knowledge---less than zero.
Let's see. I know guys hired in the late 70s/early 80s at WAL who were furloughed by that "great" airline for six years. Then they got recalled just prior to the DAL merger in 1987, to get huge jumps in pay and quality of life. Some "screw job" there.
As for PAA, I'm not sure what your point is. I DO know that there were guys hired by PAA in 1968 who were furloughed for 17 years (!), only to be put behind the National guys who were hired a decade later (National and PAA merged in 1980). They finally got back to PAA in the mid-80s, those few who hadn't actually moved on with their life.
DAL could have (and perhaps should have) let PAA, an old airline, with old airplanes, old debt, and old employees--but great route structure--die and just take what they wanted, sort of like Eastern did with the Braniff SA routes, that then AA did to them a few years later! (how many Braniff guys went to EAL? Zero. How many of those EAL pilots made it to AA--zero!). Instead DAL took on a lot of employees, some old A310s (that we flew for less than a year) some old 727s, got rid of the airplanes, kept the employees and the debt, then furloughed "original" DAL guys off the bottom of the list, then let the over 60 pilots come back into the FE seat that the junior original DAL guys were furloughed from! What a "screw job."
DAL has been one of the few airlines ever that has treated acquired employees well and with dignity. Further, our merger with NWA was the greatest and smoothest merger in airline history. I'll take DAL's record over anyone else's.
