Well, HI isn't deep into BK and argueably about to liquidate. And HALPA won't likely waive their scope and M&A language, nor will ALPA and independant lawyers they hire advise them to, nor will DALPA/DL/RA ask them to as a precondition of the merger. And even if aaaaaaaaaaaaaall that happened anyway, the TWA pattern still has the top seniority tier zippered into the top of the DL list just like the top tier of TWA was with the AA list.

Anyway I'm not advocating for a staple of the entire pilot group. All I'm saying is that many things should be taken into account and in no way should DALPA facilitate every new hire class jumping up 1 or 2000 numbers just because they ran another new hire class just prior to the merger date. IMO 100% of first and second year HI pilots should be stapled (especially with their horrendously low pay) the rest can be zippered in starting at the 330 level or slightly lower if we add in some base locks for them. Some HI pilots would end up quite high on the list, and that's fine.

And maybe (probably) they will force it to arbitration anyway. That's fine, that's how it works. But DALPA shouldn't just roll over and accept a full on relative windfall, especially for 1st and 2nd year pilots that would be insane. DALPA has an obligation to fight for current DALPA pilots and I would expect them to do that. If the end result of an arbitrated award is "unfair" then oh well.