Originally Posted by
tom11011
Do dates of hire have any bearing between the 2 different airlines or are they just interleaving the pilots? Maybe the date of hire only matters for pilot #1 on each seniority list?
For example, according to APC, JB has 4650 pilots and Spirit has 3018. That means JB has approximately 1.55 times as many pilots as Spirit. If we were to try and break these down into a more manageable number to understand, for the sake of a simple math discussion we could say and estimate that JB has 9 pilots and Spirit has 6 pilots. Let's look at a mock seniority list under this example.
TODAY
J1 S1
J2 S2
J3 S3
J4 S4
J5 S5
J6 S6
J7
J8
J9
Let's assume J1 is more senior then S1 so he will be pilot number 1.
INTEGRATED
J1
J2
S1
J3
S2
J4
J5
S3
J6
S4
J7
J8
S5
J9
S6
Is this what it looks like?
S1-S87 were hired before B6’s first flight
…but in the end it will be sorted out in a negotiation that will certainly enrage or disappoint more than it pleases.