Originally Posted by
TNT AV8R
How is keeping your relative seniority (within .5%) at the new combined carrier getting screwed? If you are at 50% on the NWA seniority list now... and 50% on the combined SL later... seems pretty fair to me. I think the NWA guys are letting their pride get in the way (i.e. I don't want to be junior to a DAL guy who got hired 1 or 2 years after me).
In my opinion, as long as the DAL guys directly in front of you/behind you (on the combined list) were at the 50% mark on DAL's list then it seems quite legitimate. Please explain why it should be otherwise.
here is the quick and dirty.
relative seniority would be fair for the moment but for the airline that is expecting a lot of retirements in the near future it become a disadvantage for them down the road and an advantage to the other airline.
look at the usair/america west seniority. a lot of people feel usair got the shaft because some 17 year pilots were put behind late 90's and early 2000's pilots due to relative seniority. those usair pilots could have expected rather quick movement because the average age of usair was around 53. that movement has changed due to the intergration.
this is similar to that but on a smaller scale.