The company will probably reject any fence proposal that is longer than 24 to 36 months. Any fence longer than that places uneccessary financial strain on the company when it comes to fleet planning and staffing. The NWA proposal once again protects the top of the list and shows how we eat our young everyday.
Curiousity question not meant to incite but just fact finding. For those NWA '01 hires how long have you actually been on the property? Ie. not furloughed? Is it 2-3 years? I know some '01 new hires that were furloughed from Delta for 6 years. With that in mind why do you find DALPA's proposal so offensive when your time on property is only three years at best. Your relative seniority within both groups is preserved.
Our new company will lose a lot of possible financial synergies of our fleet if we fence for longer than 3 years. Expect a small fence because if we don't then both training departments will implode upon themselves as we go through a huge training bubble. Let's not do that because if we do that then we follow the road of USAir in the late 90's and that gets us nowhere.
Cheers.