An independent major union and an independent regional union are two very different things financially. The regionals do not collect enough dues money to function normally and are actually subsidized by the majors. An airline the size of Skywest and ASA would take in roughly a quarter million dollars a year. One year of contract negotiations alone costs upwards of a half million...add in the rest of the costs of running a union on top of that.
If this is the case, then I agree something else needs to be done. The issue obviously needs to be fixed. My only point is that the letter is most likely not going to be as successful because it is given as an ultimatum. If the intention of this letter was to simply educate the UAL pilots about the dispute in order to bring resolution, it probably would have worked well had it not included the "or else"...just my opinion.
I guess you'd have to exclude regionals like CommutAir, Colgan, GoJet:laugh:, PSA, Great Lakes, etc as they are too small and would greatly drain your finances. If multiple regionals joined a regional union then you'd have a bunch of airlines, that previously had to be subsidized by major airlines, on their own.
Yearly MEC account income for a regional airline slightly smaller than ASA.
