Originally Posted by
flh57
Since every working group at the airline got DOH, but the pilots have a 1987 pilot at 5% and a 1986 pilot at 30%. Lets see how this works when we merge with a airline like Jetblue. Will a 11 year JB pilot be senior to a DAL pilot with 35 years since he is at a higher relative seniority?
A few things. One a FA or baggage handler gets paid the same no matter how big the jet is or how many bags they throw.
The FA gets paid for 50 passengers as each airplane needs one FA for 50 passengers. They bid on all jets and DOH works for them because no matter what they fly, they get paid the same.
The baggage handlers throw bags, the gate agents work a gate, and get paid the same no matter what airplane they board.
The dispatchers did not have a DOH integration. They had a integration that was based upon what types of schedules they held. DOH would have put fDAL employees that were intra-company transfers way ahead of their counterparts of NWA.
Wrt to us pilots and your supposed B6 intergration. Difference with the NWA/DAL marriage and them is WB jets. We have them they do not. Fences are one way to deal with that disparity, but so is slotting them a lot lower than a 320A seat and then leaving the SLI with no fences. Point is that making an assumption on how a SLI will go is nearsighted. Each will reside on its on facts. Thinking we would just slot in a AS, B6, NKS pilot in to where they sit today is, imo, a bad assumption.