I couldn't help but laugh when i read the POMSOX press release.
I would like to be optimistic about this "in-principle merger"...but like Ricky Bobby said it's just too much of a cluster #$%! to implement and that ranges from ground staff right through to upper management and that's at both companies.
But i'm afraid that flight crew from both companies better buy themselves a tub of Vaseline because conditions will deteriorate since this merger sees both sides of management unite which will take away the pilot's negotiation power. IF it goes ahead.