NightOwl,
How correct you are, on both accounts. I had some good friends working on the project hence the insight. A lot of it was common knowledge amongst employees anyway.
Most KD employees welcomed the AN drivers and the knowledge they could pass on. As "Backspace" said the issue of an Agenda was true however it was as I understand a small group of AN F/O's mainly. They believed that the CRJ should have gone into the AN stable and that KD should remain a Turbo-prop operation only.
The contract drivers were mostly top class. They agreed that the KD contract was the most lucrative most of them had ever seen. Yes they took a sh@tload of money back home with them but that was the only way it could be achieved in the end. Had the differences between the then KD chief pilot, Assistant chief pilot and AN been managed differently at the beginning of the CRJ project then things would have been entirely different.
Such is life.
Regards,
Riddler