but the real question will be about crew integration
Only from our very self-interested perspective as pilots.
In my opinion, a far more 'real' question will be the integration of senior and middle management - and of course, the poor sods who do the hard yards for next to nothing in the far less glamorous jobs in both airlines.
I suspect that quite a few of them will not be needed, whereas people lke us (aircrew) will be excess to requirements only if they reduce the overall number of aeroplanes
(sorry, 'airplanes' for our American cousins) in the combined fleet. I hasten to add that if the world economic situation continues on its present course, such a reduction is quite on the cards!
Let's all hope the AUH owners are willing to continue to operate at a loss in the short term so they'll have an up and running airline with excess capacity ready to exploit a burgeoning economic situation if and when one ever eventuates from the monetary bloodbath we're witnessing at the moment.