Originally Posted by
Sliceback
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?
Well mergers in the last 10 years haven't been the winner takes all that AA and some of the other legacies were used to.
The furloughs and 2013 eagle flows should not be above hundreds of people who can easily hold lines on pretty much every aircraft. Many of us have very good seniority now and have a choice of where we want to be. There is a lie out there that third listers are nothing more than a bunch of new hires on reserve stuck in Philly on the 190, that is simply not true. Why should people who didn't bring a job to this merger (some of whom had never even finished indoc) be put in front of us? Let's not forget which airline has the most retirements in the shortest period of time. Do AA pilots think they are entitled to the attrition as well? Simply put having a seniority number within the last 15 years at AA was worth as much as a wooden nickel.