C3 buys Royal
 

The latest rumour flashes by and it has C3000 acquiring Royal with more news to follow. Does this mean that the void left by Canadian's demise is about to be filled?

Not just a rumour - it's on the C3 website: http://micro.newswire.ca/releases/Ja...1.html/65020-0

Canada 3000 L1011s and 737s, or more business for Toulouse?

And be on the look out for Royal's CEO to start a new airline within 2 years from now :)

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Trop haut, trop bas, trop tard!!!

What's happening to "Royal Cargo" now that the Main Airline absorbed???

Hi gays,
The royal cargo division is a good asset, how about the deal is it a merg... or buy thing?
How about the royal pilots (no union behind!)
Any comment!!!

No union Spells trouble for Royal Pilots http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif

I Agree, it's goiing to be a rough time for them for a while, but then they will become ALPA members. But how much is it goiing to cost them. Hmmmm...

If ALPA behaves like unions in other industries then the pilots at Royal should brace for a right "Royal" shafting. A friend of mine worked for a firm for 5 years union-free, the shop he was in got consolidated into another one in the same company that was unionized. Result: he got union scale (lower than his previous wage), was forced to cough up an "initiation fee" of one week's pay and dues of half a day's pay every month. Six months later he got bumped out of his job by the union local VP's nephew.

looks like mafia rather than union.

Not far off the mark, Waloo. The problem is that Canadian unions don't have to represent the interests of their members because the law requires all employees in a union shop to pay dues even if they don't want to be members. Predictably, when this law came into effect the union bosses became even less accountable than politicians. As for the outfit my friend worked for, they finally gave up and moved the whole operation to South Carolina, which is a "right to work" state. Workers there get paid more but the company has fewer headaches and bigger profits.