Originally Posted by
NuGuy
At NWA, our contract required that not only did IPs have to be a seniority list pilot, it had to be a captain instructor. For every IP they hired, that meant they needed to add another captain position. This survived even bankruptcy.
After the merger, we went to the DAL language on this, and it was a major giveback worth probably 300 jobs.
I was wondering how this came about. I didn’t realize how big of a give this is. Guess there is no way to unring that bell.