Originally Posted by
Akamai
Eischen was the lead arbitrator for both. I don’t have links for the awards but B.4 & B.5 from the DAL/NWA award and B.5 in the UAL/CAL award have widebody fence language that says: “ For a period of five years, no premerger ABC pilot may be awarded a Captain or First Officer vacancy on XYZ aircraft or displaced to one.”
As I previously stated, the awards do have an allowance for unfilled vacancies to be staffed by the premerger pilots that are fenced off, which is highly unlikely to happen for the CA seat but very well could happen for the FO seat (especially in SEA) since we put new hires into the 330/787 in HNL.
My anecdotal information probably was based on the lived experience of the guys I talked so, guess that's where I got the idea that FO's weren't fenced, since they ended being able to grab unfilled vacancies in short order.
I tend to assume that those hired onto the HAL list after the merger announcement date won't enjoy fence protections, wouldn't make sense that a 2024 HAL hire would have priority over a 2014 AS hire?