Originally Posted by
Wrsofked
I see it coming out fairly relatively, with junior UAL guys getting a bit of a bump upward due to their longevity of ACTIVE service over the same relative CAL pilots. There will be some other factors that affect the placement by small percentages ie..career expectations. I don't see a windfall in the cards for either group, regardless of what ALPA merger policy is.
Don't get all ****y...its just an opinion.
Except relative seniority would be a windfall for CAL pilots. UAL has much more widebody aircraft, and fewer narrowbody. CAL is a smaller airline, but has more than twice as many narrowbody, and UAL has three times as many widebody.
My friends at CAL all tell me they would like relative seniority, and I don't blame them. It would be good for them, and bad for me, alas.
And if thats what they do, then thats fine. But you just have to understand that while CAL is a great airline and there are certainly opportunities for earlier relative seniority narrowbody capts, UAL brings the big paying jobs in greater number.
So if the DAL arbitration was used as a model they'd say (pretending it was 3 to 1 widebody) the top XXXX pilots are going to be 3 UAL for 1 CAL and then do the same for mid body, and then the narrowbody (except it would be 2 CAL for 1 UAL mixing in the narrowbody).
That's only if they use that logic.
Doesn't matter either way, because they are certainly to make it confusing enough that we all shrug and say "Ok, that's the list"