Originally Posted by Hawker Driver

My colleague was former Eastern Airlines then US Air. After 18 years with US Air, and two furloughs, he had actually flown just 5. Yeah, the other 13 years were on furlough!

Later, when the merger occurred between America West and US Air, he simply could not reconcile to himself both the job insecurity up to that point and how the mediator had ruled. When the call came to come back after the second furlough, he retired instead.

Except for very senior US Air guys who operated equipment "Cactus" didn't operate at that time, the rest of the guys like him fell junior to the most junior America West fellows.

I'm just a corporate peon on the outside looking in. But, it just seems inconceivable to me how much older USAir guys, with not many years left, could be passed over en masse and the decision by the mediator be considered fair. I'm missing a whole lot of details here, so I apologize in advance for my ignorance. Thanks.