190 pay: if you DON'T go after the new JB rates, all of the pilots get anvils, strip down to your "shorts" and get all up on yourself with ball pean hammers. That is the least you will deserve.
Paying your dues does NOT involve being at a regional airline, swallowing up to major airlines and then having your seniority just mixed in with the "major" pilots. That sounds like someone not wanting to take all that "due paying PIC time", waiting for the industry to turn around, interviewing and starting at the bottom of a MAJOR's seniority list. Unless you were hired in the '60s, you should not just "fall" into a major airline pilot job.
Oh, and I think I can be pretty sure about something that the arbitrator is NOT going to look at: How much money one mgmt group gave to the other airline(s).
GL to all the Frontier and Mid pilots.
To all my RAH friends: Do not expect to land in the oasis without having to first walk across the desert. A few of you have, but MOST have not.
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