Originally Posted by
BOB W
I think that is what is happening is that AS is finding out that they do not need redundancy between AS and VX, especially at the executive level. The top levels at AS will be making hard decisions to streamline the upper (and most expensive) levels.
The top VX people and anybody that steered the ship were long gone as were nearly all the VX revenue management people who were looking for new jobs before the deal was even finalized. Very few people from the VX corporate side went up to SEA. As was mentioned AS considers any non unionized employee to be "management" and these are likely all long time SEA based AS employees which will be reduced. They will try to eliminate jobs of older works that retire and just not replace them. If there are not enough of them, they will find ways to get rid of the most expensive people and hope that some existing employees will be able to add that job to their own and take the same pay.
The only people from the VX side AS needed to keep were the flight attendants and pilots as they had nobody on their own staff that were certified to operate those planes.