JonnyKnoxville
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Can we force a merger to prevent the wipsaw from continuing? Didn't pilots do that with a few different companies that make up American Eagle today?
That won't take care of anything. Unions are losing the battle. Take a look at the industry over the last 5 years. ALPA is weaker than ever. Maybe Obama will come to the rescue.Railroad Act I believe will take care of things eventually
In the real world Delta wants to get rid of their contract carriers
Stores and MX still being done by individual carriers.....for now. Though Mesaba's mx department and stores is in dire need of an overhaul. I see payroll, HR/pass bureau, finance/supply chain, crew sched/planning all being handled by MCH. I heard all the MCH employees have Mesaba badges now; is this true?I don't see a merger of the certificates, but...
The battlefield is different now. Mesaba, Compass, and Comair now fall under a holdings company of DAL called MC holdings. Mesaba and Compass have been under it for a little over a year now, Comair is just coming under it so they may not see the changes yet. What they are doing is all subordinate jobs (Stores, Payroll, etc. HR staying seperate I think), are being done by MC holdings staff. At the same time a new ground handling company has been formed. At first it was called RHS, but it now seems they are calling themselves Regional Elite Ground Services. This is Mesaba, Compass, and Comair now combined ground handlers. So in essence, the only thing left at the three airlines are SOC, Maintenance, Training, Flight Ops, In Flight, and HR (?maybe?). The combined overall costs go down, but the costs of each independant airline will go up, because they will not have the income or cheap labor costs of the ground ops to offset labor costs.
So overall the three are already merged, but seperate certificates. The contract carriers will be hardpressed to be cheaper than any one of the wholly owneds.