Originally Posted by
CanoePilot
Remember this is the first time AA has ever merged without some kind of staple job. They are out of their element and have never had to deal with MB or a seniority arbitration.
Your history lesson is wrong. It's not the first AA merger that didn't have a staple job. And no one has ever had to deal with MB before they did for the first time. Be it DL/NW, SW/AT, UA/CO, or US/AW.
Regardless of the outcome the third listers will be the big winners.
And concerned about the AE guys, with AA seniority numbers, merging into the list at their seniority number? What's the solution you'd recommend? Pulling them out of the AA list and moving them back several thousand numbers? Or moving the third listers several thousand numbers forward into 1998 DOH's with guys that are Captains at AA?