Originally Posted by
Excargodog
You clearly do not understand McCaskill-Bond either. Only once the two groups were under the same JCBA would the two groups be combined and the SLI - not the JCBA - then governs the seniority. Why then would any endeavor pilot NOT fight to carry over as much possible of his/her seniority from a time when they were “flying Delta pax in Delta aircraft” when they merged with Mother D? They have everything to gain and nothing whatever to lose. McCaskill-Bond was designed precisely to PREVENT staples. It would eventually wind up - like most SLIs do - in arbitration and ultimately no matter if DOH was used, RS, was used, or a combination of both, the Endeavor group would gain something, and that something can only come at the expense of the Mother D pilots.
https://skift.com/2012/06/30/the-sen...rlines-morale/
Nor would it be only the Endeavor pilots pushing this. ALL of the Endeavor employee unions would push for this, because they would all benefit by it.
Yup. An arbitrator would recognize that DL pilots were in a much better place to start with, but he/she would not recognize the inherent industry arpatheid that separates regional scum from the deity-like legacy pilots. By our industry norms and expectations, the regional pilots would get a windfall... ESPECIALLY from the perspective of Delta pilots who worked their way up the ladder, got hired OTS, and now end up junior to someone who had both less seniority and less initiative back at the regional.
An airline *could* simply do it regardless of what their pilots prefer, but there are several reasons they would not want to go there...
1. Operational blowback from the OG pilots.
2. They would much rather hire the people they want, and grow them to be the CA's they want, as opposed to mixing in outsiders in a divisive manner. Especially in light of aforementioned industry attitudes... They don't want to displace CA James "Tequila" Sunrise (Academy and Weapons School grad) in favor Ricky "Bubba" Braxton Davis (GED and Truckmasters grad).
DAL is probably the least likely to SLI a regional, since they have fewer retirements, and are in the top one or two preferred destination airlines for pilots anyway.
With other legacies, if you got into a regional merger situation that was not ALPA v. ALPA, then it might play out differently. I'm 99% sure that the MB act does not require the JCBA before SLI, that's actually an ALPA thing.