Originally Posted by
IwasInverted
That seems to be an emotional response. You still have the same relative seniority, so your same bidding power and you still have your longevity for pay rates.
You know better than that. I'm a Jetblue guy in my last 12 years. My current expectations are that I will be very senior here in my last seven to eight years. In a relative seniority integration I would be mixed with pilots hired 10 years after me. That means the average age of those pilots would be 10 years younger than me and I would never attain a senior position.
Thats why longevity matters.
We shouldn't get emotional. I expect Spirit pilots to fight for relative because the vast majority of you are so new. We will argue for DOH and somewhere in the middle we will meet. That is how it will work and the rest of this talk is just a divisive wast of resources.