Originally Posted by
Olecal
Age has nothing to do with it! So what your saying is, because you are younger, you have time! They didn't make the career decision for the folks at UAL. They chose a different path, and you feel they should be punished for that? See NS's testimony of 'A tale of two pilots". My mediator friend says that is a very difficult situation for the arbitrators to overlook, it's likely they won't!
Age has everything to do with it. That why the CAL side did exactly ZERO analysis of doing an actuarial style analysis of career expectations. They only wanted to totally get the best starting point today and used every outlier they could find to make their points.
How can you possibly know how your career progression is going to come out unless you say "This is what our proposed list looks like in 10 years...."