Originally Posted by
LAX Pilot
Yep. And here is the trick that the arbitrator has to figure out.
If a CAL guy was going to be a 737 Cap in 2 more years, he should be able to do the same on the integrated list.
If a UAL guy was supposed to spend his last 8 years as a widebody Capt, that should still happen.
If they can't both happen, there should be an equal trade-off of whatever. We all know it won't be perfect.
At the snapshot date UAL had 72 aircraft that were 777 and 747's and CAL had 22. The junior widebody FO at UAL goes below #4800 because most of the jobs above that seniority are widebody CAP and FO.
They are going to "math" this thing to death, and try to make it an equal deal (i.e. NOT relative seniority, NOT DOH, NOT matching up the JR Capts at each airline, etc.) and come up with a solution.
Either way, we don't get a vote and its probably going to get mixed reviews, but there shouldn't be any windfalls for either side either way.
I believe this to be very accurate. As we can see as the TA deadline looms, lashing out and name calling is becoming more frequent. I feel that the ISL will cause more of this. Hopefully we all try and realize that we cannot do anything but wait and see.