Originally Posted by cactusmike

So, you resigned from US Airways after you decided that you did not want to honor the SLI produced by ALPA merger policy. The SLI that was negotiated, mediated and arbitrated according to the ALPA Constitution. There is bitterness at Airways because one side did not honor the process that was agreed to. AWA pilots did not lose billions of dollars, your former cohorts made the conscious decision to forgo a new contract because that contract would have included the Nicolau Award. Each east captain has lost over $450000 dollars in pay since the merger because of their own decision to reject the SLI that was arbitrated.

I wonder how you will feel should the SLI not go your way this time. Will you again resign or will you honor the process this time? You gave up 8 years of seniority to go to CAL. I do hope this works out for you.

By the way, the Nicolau Award was not straight relative seniority. If you take the time to read the award you will see that the East was allotted the top 517 positions for only 20 widebodys, 10 of those 767s. He crafted the award to allow for heavy jet upgrades on the East for a period of time before any AWA pilot would be able to hold that slot. As a senior AWA captain I actually lost 18% seniority under the Nic. But I did not care since that was the process we agreed to. Now that we have another merger coming up I will not expect anything other than a fair arbitration, however that may turn out.