...the powers that be will never integrate the two organizations
Pilots are constantly running conspiracy lines about Management. Management don't need to derive any industrial strategies at all - the employees work it out for them!!
The last virgin summed it up nicely
"...complaints about the 30 odd PB commanders that would be incorporated into VB as Captains."
So it would seem that "the powers that be" are in fact FO's not seeing the forrest for the trees...