Originally Posted by FloatGeek
Thanks for the input everyone. Yea, im sure the seniority lists could be integrated many different ways. But considering they are both ALPA I would guess it would be a totally date-of-hire integration. But who knows, we could go on all day about that.
Actually any ALPA to ALPA mergers.............The National office at Herndon stays out of it..............because they can't fairly represent one carrier verses the other. The individual MEC's handle it.....................
Since seniority is everything in this industry, especially when growth is stagnent. most MEC's fight light you know what to protect their respective pilot groups............................as they should.
Most seniority integration is decided by an nuetral arbitrator aftet both sides hire big Gun lawyers to present their cases.
Look at what is going on at America west/ USAirways. America west has approx 1900 pilots with the most Senior pilot date of hire (DOH) around 1984. USAir has approx 4000 active (approx 2000 furloughed). The Junior active pilot at USAir has a DOH of around 1987. You can see how contentious this is. Mergers are never a simple thing and leave lasting bad blood with the newly mixed group. Just the way it is.