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Originally Posted by forgot to bid
From talking to the merger committee folks the end money given to the pilot group between the time and a half pay NWA used to get and the greenslip system was a wash proportionally. However, the greenslip system was spread out whereas the 1.5X system was heavily in favor of senior pilots.

Thanks for making this very pertinent point. I never thought about it that way, but there is no way 1.5>80 will be more fair than GS (quite the opposite). This is because access to open time is straight seniority, whereas GS has a distribution mechanism to send flying down. Anyone that's in a category that's even remotely fat knows that the flying never trickles down very far, AND we all see people engaging in various "social bdding" practices, and bidding mafias, to snake a disproportional amount of flying to themselves and their friends. I just saw it done in person not long ago, and it's pretty disgusting. Not illegal perhaps, but disgusting nonetheless.

Interestingly, when some F/A's were found out doing same (bidding on open time for friends that were airborne at the time), they were canned.