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!
So what YOU'RE saying is, absent a merger, I retire in the top 10% of the seniority list; with a merger and the "proposed" CAL SLI, I retire at the 45% mark. Meanwhile, the entire widebody fleet is filled with CAL guys that would have never seen a widebody captain's seat without the merger. I'm sure that factored in to these young jedis' minds when they took a job at CAL (rolling my eyes).