Originally Posted by
aquagreen73s
eaglefly,
Can you enumerate what the top half of the seniority list gets out of Horton's TA? What's the selling point(s) over Parker's CLA?
Many of the very senior are just looking the milk out the next 5 years or so. Most of those above the 3000 seniority range will not be flying A319's for regional pay and working conditions, none will be furloughed and all will likely remain captains. Below that, most will likely either end up back to F/O, imprisoned at the Group I and II regional world or outright jobless as several hundred E-jets take over a large portion of the remaining domestic divison of AA as AA begins its big galcier melt under the global warming of One World.
The selling point for those at the top is avoidance of the unknown. The known they can handle as for them, it's not quite as painful. The majority of their pain has already been realized with the pension issue and that will change little whether this TA floats, the U TA bobs to the surface or there is or is not a merger.
The bottom half will be dog-paddling in shark infested waters for perhaps a decade.