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Old 06-24-2008 | 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by gushubble
As a new hire, and going through the contract with some "more mature" pilots, it doesn't seem to work that way.

If a furloughed pilot from NW decides to flow back there has to be a position available for them to flow intoThere doesnt have to be a vacancy, 90% of the compass list can be displaced in the event of furloughs at NWA. Their seniority would be placed ahead of those CP pilots who had not yet been offered FlowthroughWhich is the entire list since no one has been there for 30 months yet. Any pilot who had turned down the flowthrough to NW would retain their seniority at CP and fall under protected statusTrue, see previous comment. This is added incentive to stay with CP so that CP doesn't lose all their experienced CA's every year.There is a limit on the amount of people who can Flow up at any given time. I dont have the breakdown in front of me.

Also, any NW pilots who flowback, will not be offered flowthrough again. I'm sure they can still be called back, just no flowthrough.That doesnt really make sense, because if a NWA pilot is furloughed and are awaiting recal, why would they need another "flowthrough" to get back?

As I said, I'm a newbie, but we combed the contract the first day and grilled LC as well. Hope this helps.
There are many other factors and provisions that are in place to protect the NWA pilots. The compass flow agreement was written to heavily benefit the NWA pilots if needed which in turn allowed some scope relief. Hopefully a flowback isnt necessary and this conversation is made pointless. On a positive note, the flow agreement acts as a deterrence to furloughs because of the added costs associated with re-training flowbacks at compass and the trickle down displacements. Especially when NWA and DAL are in cash savings mode and any furloughs would be short lived with the aircraft deliveries coming to both NWA and DAL in the near future.

Originally Posted by Mesabah
What's false about it? It sounds correct to me, at least that is what I read from their agreement. If a senior pilot elected to stay at compass, he retained protected status. This was allowed, but not to exceed 10% of the list.

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