Originally Posted by
TenYearsGone
DOH would be good. But first you have to take into consideration that we have some NWA pilots hired in 2000 that are behind Delta 2007 hires.
There is no way a HAL pilot hired in the last 8 years should be ahead of any Delta pilot hired before 2008. NO WAY!
TEN
As long as I've been at DL (nearly 27 years), through 3 mergers, (WAL, PA, NWA) they have NEVER used Date of Hire to build the new list. It has ALWAYS been a form of a 'negotiated' relative position type list, relative to what they brought to the party. ie. Western only had about 5 DC10's, and about a zillion 737's, so they were light at the top and heavy at the bottom. They did recall all their furloughs and hire a ton of guys to pad their list just prior to the merger though, kind of like what HI is doing today.
With Pan Am, their biggest plane brought over was the A300, while DAL was flying a zillion L10-11's at the merger. So Pan Am was light at the top, heavy at the 727 level.
How many A330's does Hawaiian have? How many 717's and what else? Figure out the ratios and you can guestimate where you will fall in on a merged list.
There will be no date of hire SLI, so don't worry about that.