I'd like a pint of order as well... preferably something in a dark ale.
That's the ticket -- destroy the airline to get a quick payout. It's worked so well at all of the other airlines that tried to get wages exceeding what the airline could generate in revenues...
By FWAAAA's calculations, the pilots would eat up just about all of the existing profit margin, leaving nothing for profit sharing, thus taking it out of everyone else's pockets. Or, they'll force the airline into the red, which I'm sure you would be all giddy and tingly.
Yeah, not quite Skippy. Not even close, actually.
Case and point: Southwest sold 88 of its B717's from subsidiary Airtran to Delta. Since those airplanes were never on WN's certificate, >50% of the assets of FL were transferred to DL.
Not a single employee was required to be transferred as part of that deal.
All McCaskill-Bond dictates are the steps to take place if employee groups are combined *and* the deal involves >=50% of the assets of the company being acquired.
There's nothing that requires employees to be taken along for the ride.