Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
The best thing that can happen for this pilot group is for the E190 to be parked as fast as possible and replaced by the A220. Spirit's merger committee will be arguing aggressively that the JB E190 pilots should be integrated separately and after all Spirit pilots because they argue it's a smaller category/class of aircraft. That will affect all JB pilots, not just the ones currently on the E190 or those at the bottom of the list.
Those harms to seniority last forever, the temporary pain of the bottom of the E190 CA list is temporary.
Park them as fast as possible in my opinion. It shouldn't matter, because they were announced to be parked before the merger announcement, but you never know for sure which argument the arbitrator will buy, and we shouldn't take any chances.
this right here.
while I think that argument is BS it certainly can’t hurt to remove the argument all together.
”premerger equities” in the AK/VA merger were snapshoted at corporate closure of the merger. Everyday that passes before that happens helps.
as it stands right now no JetBlue pilot has the career expectation beyond 2024 to fly anything but a 220 or 320.