Originally Posted by
mike734
I'm a 20+ Alaska pilot and I expect to lose a few numbers but I also expect some sort of fence to prevent those few guys from bidding in to my base. I also expect I won't be able to bid the Bus in SFO for a few years. Maybe 5 years and by then I expect those few senior VX pilots will be retired. Of course if the Buses go away quickly, that changes everything.
Just so you know, Delta/NW, UAL/CAL, and AA/USAir there we no base fences. United guys proposed one on the 787 but it was not allowed. There were a few widebody fences, but we had a ton of United guys flood into EWR and IAH immediately after our SLI, just like we had flooded into ORD, IAD, DEN, SFO, and LAX. It sort of defeats the purpose of integrating pilots to now let anyone bid into each other's bases.