Originally Posted by
griff312
The first, is called the "824". It's an arbitration award that the company HAS to abide by, or face the wrath of the mighty arbitrator! It was rewarded for damages done to almost 1000 Eagle (ENY) pilots when AA had flow-backs come to Eagle and displace CA's, FO's, and cause furlough's.
Not entirely true. The flowback provision was always part of the deal. There were some interpretation grievances about how it was implemented, but none of them really resulted in any earth shattering rulings.
The 824 ruling was a result of the order of furlough recalls around the 2007 time frame. Eagle had some numbered pilots slotted between furloughees, but when AA was recalling, they skipped past those pilots and only recalled the "nAAtives". ALPA grieved this, and although there were only 150 or so Eagle pilots directly affected, they were able to make the case for downline damages, as pilots were unable to upgrade, move to higher paying aircraft, get off reserve, etc.
In the end, the arbitrator ordered the withheld Eagle pilots to be brought over to AA at whatever their pay step would have been (3-4 years), and determined that a total of 824 additional Eagle pilots were adversely affected, and would be given the opportunity to flow.