Originally Posted by
symbian simian
Maybe I should have been more clear. The stagnant remark was in the context of the JB/NK merger. So do you think JB has grown faster than NK or not. If so, you should prefer RS over DOH. If not you worked for a carrier that wasn't as successful growing as the other one. And maybe that should take some wind out of the DOH being the better metric.
I really don't know what is fair. But after being in the industry for 20 years, I ended up at NK. And after 9 years I am at 20% RS. Personally, I don't think that going to 38% RS based on DOH would be fair. And the reason I would be going down would be because JB didn't grow as much as NK. So to hear we should be grateful to join isn't awesome. I would prefer no merger. Yes, your pay rates are higher, but I would be an FO if I was at JB.
And I am way more antagonistic than 99% of the NK pilots, and actually, in person not that bad, but it is APC required to be a keyboard warrior.
How did JB not grow as much as NK? NK is older and smaller. How does that math work out? So should we just evaluate growth based on NK's or JB's best growth years? This is a legal process and will follow precedent very closely and changes usually only happen if there are huge differences in the current question. Even then changes to precedent happens slowly. I don't see much difference in a JB/NK dynamics than the AK/VA merger so it will most likely be very similar to that thus following how it has been done for decades. I'd wager the end result being a ratio of DOH/RS being within a 5 percentage points of the AK/VA result.