the_last_viirgin,
Very good idea and very forward thinking, this is what is required from a pilot group these days, but the problem here is that the powers that be will never intergrate the two organisations for the very reason I stated in my original post, they want to keep it separate (as I would if I was a manager), so you get two pilot groups bidding themselves down till the conditions are so S@#T that who cares who does the flying! Imagine if they said to all the PB guys tomorrow, you can do the USA etc for this price or we might have to shut down the PB operation and get
VB to do it, and then say to the
VB guys, if you don't do the USA etc for this price, PB will then have to start doing some domestic flying in Australia to make their operation profitable. And the worm keeps turing. PB will never be intergrated into
VB for the reasons stated above, it reduces
VB's managment leverage. But what do I know, I am just a simple line driver.
BOHICA.