Originally Posted by
Flyhigh44
Alpa merger policy will go into play. Pay rates will be raised at F9 to the current NK pay scale. Then the JCBA will be negotiated. Pay rates have nothing to do with how a seniority list will be integrated. When Ual Cal merged and Dal/ Northwest. Pay was brought up to the higher or the two. Then a JCBA was negotiated with a seniority list. JCBA usually is held up by one pilot group not the company. The company will want the synergies of a combined airline as fast as possible.
You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried
F9 has no obligation to raise rates to NK rates prior to a JCBA (ask NK pilots about the second bite)
In a SLI the arbitrator will weigh all equities brought in by the pilot groups, pay is indeed a factor (see JBLU not wanting to raise NK to their rates for this reason)
The JCBA will not be negotiated with the ISL, they are separate and separate for a reason. You can not have the ISL prior to approval of the JCBA. The JCBA has to come first.
As far as JCBA goes, NK pilots will recognize it as familiar to what we had with JBLU. We wanted to get snapups to JBLU rates, JBLU management and their MEC didn’t want that. So you’re hoping Franke wants to give you guys a snap up, prior to a JCBA, which will likely cost him more money in a JCBA because F9 is now starting from a higher point. Hardly likely