Originally Posted by
8JRMfortheyear
I had a AA Jumpseating to MSY ask me about the whole B6/NK deal. After a small chat, he finished with telling me that he was a 2001 AA hire (Not TWA) and had a 2013 Airway guy jump in front of him. I will say that no one knows what will happen when the SLI comes to play. Look at pinnacloaba merger and how that ended up. All i know is that it won't be pretty FWIW.
That Airway guy only jumped where the arbitrator told him to jump, and so did the AA guy. The SLI has absolutely nothing to do with the pilots. Obviously the respective union reps from both sides will go before the arbitrator and explain why the other group needs to be stapled, that is what they are supposed to do, represent ME. The arbitrator will pretend to listen, and then do whatever he wants, and his ruling is binding. The other guy in the cockpit that used to wear a different shirt? Not his fault if he ended up above or below you. The only thing we can do to improve our QOL is show unity and support ALPA in the fight against management to get a good JCBA.