Whoops...spoke too soon. What I've outlined above is only in the NWA SLI proposal. The DAL SLI proposal doesn't distinguish between pilots hired before or after constructive notice. It just discusses pilots from each group's pre-merger seniority list.
Dont' mean to start a war, but that is a weak spot in the DAL SLI fences. I don't know of any merger where the arbitrator didn't treat post constructive notice pilots differently than pre constructive notice. In the DAL SLI proposal, some post constructive notice DAL pilots are senior to NWA pre constructive notice pilots. If the arbitrators agreed to that, I think it would be the first time.
In the DAL SLI, the bottom 402 pilots are NWA pilots. Because of that, a DAL pilot that would not yet have been offered a class date at DAL at the time of constructive notice, is senior to an NWA pilot who was hired in the year 2000.
Carl
Last edited by Carl Spackler; 10-25-2008 at 10:33 AM.