Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Yeah, but doesn’t that destroy the “allure” if any, of having a seniority number? If your number goes down with every military or street hire or WO guy/gal that gets out of sequence hired at the major, and up when every guy/gal at the WO gets hired at some other major, there isn’t any meaningful difference between what you got now and what you are proposing. What you are proposing is a distinction without a difference.
All you are really doing is putting lipstick on the existing pig and trying to convince people she is beautiful, yet nothing changes. you won’t go to mainline one minute quicker than you would have anyway and your alleged “seniority number” is actually written in smoke, and still progresses - up OR DOWN - only at the whim of mainline HR.
the assumption would be that street hires would go away and all new hires would come through the WO’s. This would all apply just to military. In addition it would keep pilots loyal to AA.
plus we are only talking seniority. We would all have the same contract, work rules, retirement etc.