Originally Posted by Mr chub

AirTran pilots will get full retro as well. When SW purchased AT they negotiated a new contract with AT pilots which was approved by them. So while they were on the AT side of the partition they were under a current contract. On the SW side we were in negotiations on an expired contract. Once an AT pilot transitioned over to the SW side they were now working under an expired contract. They will receive all retro from the time they transitioned over to SW.