Heard through the grapevine that ALT are to get out of handling themselves at all their stations and give it over to an outside contractor thus saving money and making it more attractive for sale.
Part of the plan is to finish pilot contracts
at the next round of talks and recruit them back on a contract basis
This is to decrease the demands from the pilots for increased wages that cannot be sanctioned by the company, and rather than be held for ransom they are going to get rid of them.
Perhaps MOR is getting ready to flog off the company before the employees make it too much of a headache for any company to buy.