Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I don’t think it’s fair but what’s fair and what will happen are two very different things. The scenario you mention has played out in past mergers in various ways. It won’t even be a consideration in merging the lists. The first thing that will happen is a constructive date of merger will be determined. Usually the day a public announcement of intent to merge is made by management. A snap shot of each seniority list will be taken on that date. Each list will then be stove piped showing what each pilot would hold if everyone bid the highest paying equipment. The arbitrator will work off those two lists. Who you worked for before and how you came to be on a list will not even be a factor that the arbitrator looks at.
For DL pilots, unless a staple was iron clad guaranteed, it's all risk/no reward.
Even if that was the initial result, DALPA would spend millions for years on frivolous lawsuits.
The only way to do it, at this point, is via new-hiring from the EDV list as managemebt sees fit.
Could that be in the form of a high volume flow? Sure. That way whoever wants to bypass can do so, and no DL pilot is ever at risk of being seniority jumped.
None of this matters anyway if they don't actually move the RJ's onto the mainline. I really doubt they will do that now. The time to do so has long passed.
IMO the only way an EDV pilot ever gets to a DL 717/220 or above is by starting on the bottom of the DL list, one way or the other (flow or off the street).