Originally Posted by
A6ETrammn
Captain Moak is very eloquent in his response to the one sided LOA 19 agreement, but let me give you an NWA pilot perspective. DAL has never treated any airline merger partner fairly. I give you PAL and Western as examples.
Now what he says sounds good, but let me put it into perspective from the "other" side. DAL gets their raise, they ask for a ridiculous seniority list from NWA. NWA says you're Sc***ing us. DAL says, darrn, we tried, oh well.
Willing to bet that's what will happen.
It's far worse than that. After they say "darn, we tried" the no furlough clause for Delta pilots only kicks in after the closing of the merger. Any furloughs during the multi-year arbitration process is all on the NWA side. When arbitrator makes the decision, he says the new SLI only applies to pilots who were on the property at the time of the decision. This effectively staples all furloughed NWA pilots to the back of the new list. Will DALPA employ this strategy, who knows. But the LOA allows for it to happen at the sole discretion of DAL management.
Carl