Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I spoke with one green book pilot. He was very concerned about fences and did not want them. He said the fences had screwed him for 20 years. He was willing to take a ratio without fences since it would still get him a widebody international seat to retire off instead of his current narrow body domestic seat. He said a 10 year fence would keep him where he is until he retires because of what the red book pilots did to him. Please no comments on his views of the last merger. Just reporting what he feels about this one.
His logic is flawed unless he is assuming that there will be no base closures to redeploy equipment to new bases and routes. At a minimum I expect the SEA A330 base to close and probably MSP A330. Not sure about the 747-400 moving, but if it does, the new bid will be mostly Green Book guys.