Originally Posted by
Halon1211
but with todays law captains can’t downgrade to FO’s with a merger. There are certain “fences” in place that prohibits the abuse we used to see in years past.
That ‘MIGHT’ be the case in an arbitrated settlement, but SWA/AirTran was not arbitrated. The conditions of SLI were settled during negotiation, and EACH union membership voted it in by approximately 85% yes to 15% no.
I suspect an industry lesson-learned through this would be to just take it to arbitration.