Originally Posted by
Irishish
There are essentially 4 lists right now.
-AA
-East+3rd list
-West+3rd list
It seem like the East pilots would like the arbitrators to look at this like a 3-way merger and integrate the groups that way. What if some West pilots get slotted higher in the NEW new list than even the Nicolau? Especially with respect to "relative" seniority it would seem with two fairly large groups (AA and US) and one much smaller group (AWA) that this could happen.
Would AWA pilots complain that the Nicolau wasn't used as a starting point? Would East pilots do the same?
This is all a big unknown and why we are in court. The west's position is there is only one combined list on airways side and that list is the Nicolau. MB specifically prohibits its use to us/aa merger and applies only to us/aa