It’s funny with all of this …to reflect …because I’m old enough to do so. Before a certain year… the AFAP was strong enough to ensure that if a airline ( or a some other sort of smaller operator) was bought by the lager airline, the pilots from the smaller airline, generally joined with similar conditions. ( for example when Ansett bought Skywest . ) Then after that year occurred, the race to the bottom started…and it still has not stopped.
I’m so glad I’m out of it.