Originally Posted by
The Drizzle
Not that I support this thinking, but I see this as a big risk for the junior West pilots if they do, in fact, get their own merger committee. Using their own merger logic from the HP/US merger would have them treated exactly the way the 17 year pilot was in the Nic.
May you live in interesting times.
Which perhaps is also ANOTHER reason they may seek a compromise with USAPA. One wonders if they've internally run the possibilities and have determined that they'd risk a worse result with a Nic then without. It could be a case of their own "pyrric victory" of getting something that ultimately cost too high a price for that long awaited victory. In a vacuum with only the East and West in consideration, the Nic is one thing, but with the AA component, it becomes something quite different. The argument by some on the West that a Nic is better for them is based on assumption about how they then might be feathered in with AA pilots and/or what mitigators would apply.
Those are all assumptions.
It seems tough to argue against a result that becomes a "new" Nic, just one that treats the West like the original Nic treated the East. In consideration of that, MAYBE the West is now being very careful about what they ask for ?