They plan to maintain two separate operating certificates. This is fact. You will bid which company you would like to fly at. How is this a merger? It is simply a plan to negate Polars hard won work rules and keep both pilot groups away from negotiations for as long as possible. Your statement about the Atlas certificate is not very well thought out. Do you really think AAWH is going to risk losing Polars routes. Not a chance. The Atlas MEC has been buying into JCs plan for far to long. Wake up!
You guys must think a lot of your contract. AAWW would go to all this trouble just to negate a contract that only has 150 pilots.
They will fly both certficates thru one pilot group, plain and simple. Nowhere have they said otherwise, regardless of what BobbRobin is telling you. He's hanging on for dear life to his 100 hr a month job. We will fly both certs, with one set of manuals. Fly Polar one day. Atlas the next. What is so difficult about that. This plan makes since, your vision of things doesn't. This is where the savings is. Much less DHing and positioning of crews. That is why their doing this in the first place.
Hard won, by your less than three hour stike with a company that knew they were going to either sell you or shut you down in the next year or so....wow.