Originally Posted by
SpreadEagle
How do you think your seniority will fare through the merger? I wonder what kind of leverage will be able to keep at envoy since we are the larger carrier right now? I guess if they shrink us down to about 1600 - 1700 then it would equal about PSA + Piedmont so my guess is that we are gonna be stuck with that 12 year payscale. I wonder if I'll be able to get grandfathered? Maybe I'll be forced to flow... Kind of wish I wasn't making so much damn money now to take that $100,000 pay cut at AA...
Size and longevity of a pilot group are quickly made irrelevant in a merger when an arbitrator becomes involved. They put a lot of weight on each group's career expectations. This is how the East/West split came to be at Airways. The older East group was dying on the vine so the arbitrator gave greater weight to the smaller, junior West pilots.
Most of us believe that a merger is coming. We should all be asking ourselves what kind of career expectations this MEC has given us.