Yeah, bring on the merger. But put Air NZ pilots at the bottom of a seniority list; that's what they wanted to do at Ansett. It is inevitable that the sell of of Air NZ was going to happen anyway, it's been on the cards for years. The thing is, Air NZ should have been sold to SQ 18 months ago AND 16,000 OZ JOBS SAVED. Now PM Clark (Ha, PM , get it??) must now do what was obvious to all in Sept. 2001 and sell. It is my hope that the electoral backlash will consume her and cost her her job( actually, I'd rather see her slip into a pool filled with pirahna), but I'm not holding my breath that these disgusting pollies will ever have one iota of regret for the damage that they doand have done.