That's the way it always works, even if the two companies are not related. It's always been a problem for the smaller airlines to keep pilots because they always wanted to fly the larger aircraft. David R. http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://www.secure-skies.org/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 5:58 PM Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] Big planes vs. little ones > I know jumping from UE to UA is 2 different companies, but that is how the > promotion structure has worked in times where they needed pilots. I would > assume that Skywest pilots could also jump to Delta. > Yes, AA owns Eagle, and I have no idea what TWA was doing with their > pilots but the AA unions and AA had promised to integrate TWA employees based > on seniority and seem to have reneged