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US Airways: Unhappy Pilots Prove Airline Merger Difficulty

It appears that the airline industry is analogous to the US auto industry, where a large portion of the industry problems are caused by the unions and the internal union politics. Using seniority as a tool to allocate rewards seems to be one of the worst ways to manage an organization. Perhaps if choice assignments were allocated based on pilot performance rather than seniority, not only would smoothness of flights, on-time performance, etc... improve but these merger issues might disappear as well.