Originally Posted by
pilot64golfer
Well unfortunately that's a part of mergers. You get to fly what they brought and they get to fly what you brought. We have fences, but 90% of pilots can't hold 747, 777 or A-350 Captain so the fences end and that guy who should have been a Jumbo Captain now waits while the guys integrated ahead of him go to those seats.
Understood. I think fences are possible here as both LAA and West proposals touch on that (787-A350), but for whom and how long is one question. Arbitrators are loathe to erect fences anymore and thus the resolution to this new paradigm is likely how pilots will be feathered in. The Wests "hybrid" 35% Longevity/65% Stat & Cat philosophy seems weighted in their favor. The junior LAA pilots have suffered as well with substantial furlough times and this proposal just stands to agonize an already badly damaged career path for thousands of them. We also have 1000 junior pilots still on elective furlough, many of which are unlikely to return leaving those still here and junior at even more disadvantage depending on feathering, weighting and ratios as most of them simply may be nothing more then ghosts.