Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
With one exception: Attrition is not a vagary, it's a statistical certainty. The NWA/REP arbitration used the attrition "look ahead" to decide how long the fences should be. With Bloch saying they hoped to craft a list that the pilots could live with now and in the future, it leads me to believe they will look at the attrition equation in any proposal they are contemplating.
Carl
But is garanteeing future advancement based on that attrition a statistical certainty, within the context of this merger? I don't believe he set any priorities as to which basis for future expectations is more valid or more vague. The "now and in the future" comment is pretty general, unobjectionable platitude, I doubt he gave a little "wink"
to the NW side when he said it.