Originally Posted by
DAL73n
Not going to happens - the most senior B-737 CA WILL NOT be any higher than the most senior DELTA B-737 CA - this ratioed seniority is exactly why so many NW guys ended up 2 years junior to their year group @ Delta. If we (DALPA) didn't allow it to happen with NW (including the arbitration decision) why would we have to give it up to Alaska? I'm sure they will give some kind of protection for Alaska pilots but they are ALPA, we are ALPA and the merger will be similar to other mergers. Also, the Alaska rumors have been around since the day I was hired 16 years ago - maybe they'll happen some day
The most senior 737 A is # 66 on the overall seniority list. (If, it's the #1 guy in ATL), so I don't understand what you are saying.
Right now we have a 4 category merged seniority list between NWA and DAL -- Wide body/Narrowbody and Captan/FO's -- Down from the South's original proposal that there should be 7 categories based on pre-merger pay, because the arbitrators didn't see the need to complicate it like that. So, they seemed to entirely discount pre merger pay so as to lump the groups together according to post-mreger pay -- wide body vs. narrow body. They even put NWA 757's into the wide body group category, because Delta, "....operated it's B767s and 757s as a combined fleet."
That was the starting point of the list which was further adjusted for more retirements on the NWA/North side. Nowhere did I see where they considered prestige, routes, bases, lifestyle, vacations, or really even size of aircraft. For the initial starting point of the list, it all seemed to be about post merger pay.
Four categories for 16 different pay scales. How many do you think they will come up with for two?
It's a tough argument for us to make if we only have 2 pay categories.