Originally Posted by
povertyeagle
I'm not aware of any non-wide body mergers that took status and category into account. TWA had some WB CA seats fenced off, but not many. On the contrary, SouthWest downgraded every single AirTran captain. That was 2011/post-McCaskill-Bond, so allowed by precedence.
SWA-AirTran wasn’t ALPA/ALPA, so no precedent
TWA was before MB, and what lead to it, so you are wrong.
And JB has three types with three different payscales so fencing is a real possibility. There is also expectations - most of the junior people at NK were recruited with the expectation of three year upgrades. JB not so much. It will wind up being what the mediator - not you or I - believes to be fair. Probably pretty much like AS and VX.