Originally Posted by
overspeed
If there were fences, how does that work for new-hires after the DCC? Are the fences only on senior aircraft that a new-hire wouldn't be able to hold in a short time anyway? Can someone explain how the fences work, please.
The fences proposed by NWA protect all Captain Seats and widebody FO seats, they do not apply to any narrowbody FO seats. They calculated a number of protected seats* for each jet and came up with a number. Any seats beyond that number (i.e. growth) get shared 1:1. There is an "insufficient bidder" clause that will give that seat a pre-merger pilot from the "other side" if there aren't enough bidders from the protected side. I'm probably over-simplifying it. If you have access to the transcripts I highly recommend you read them.
* the methodology for calculating the number of protected seats is tremendously different between the DAL proposal and the NWA proposal.