Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
I don't know. We would only give up SOME of our seniority, generally get a higher payrate, get ACTUAL Profit Sharing, join a seniority list with massive retirements and if you consider your new seniority percentage in the context of UAL narrow-body pilots, probably wouldn't lose any relative seniority at all.
Obviously if you want to compare yourself to the top half of the seniority list that is on the wide-body aircraft, different story, but overall with the proper perspective, not as bad as some make it out to be in my opinion.
I want to drive to BOS to start my trips for the next few decades
I'm not optimistic that a BOS base would survive longer term with JFK/EWR/IAD. But c'est la vie. I'll move to one of their hubs (which are much better choices than our current ones) if that happens. There are certainly a ton of better things that would come with a UAL merger, so I shouldn't just talk crap about it.