giggerty,
We are not merged airlines. We are separate airlines in a Group. No-one is, nor should be calling KA inferior or lesser, or anything else. The amount one airline adds to the Group profit is also irrelevant. I know I fly my aircraft as efficiently as I can whether it is full or empty. Others are charged with getting it full of paying passengers/freight or not, and they do a good job doing so these days, however that is done.
Staff travel should be an airline benefit - your own airline before those from another - and that is an industry 'standard practice'.
Whatever management has promised you in the past is not my concern. They've promised me a lot as well and not delivered. Taking it from someone else doesn't make it right.