At the risk of sounding antagonistic, why is United allowed to still be in C11 from a market p.o.v.? Everyone would surely benefit from mergers imposed by the market conditions rather than what is effectively working as a subsidy and an unrealistic prolonging of a hub and spoke system, which SW operates effectively without (to some extent)?
At least negotiated rather than imposed settlements ensure sanity of the negoitiators involved - it would be carnage to allow it to get that far down the road as to impose a settlement on so many employees.
Would lack of C11 have forced many management to react earlier in this case do you think, and perhaps protect employee groups from imposed/unfair settlements?