Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Heyas Super,
And here you find where their logic falls apart. Pre-JCBA, all we heard was "bad bases, old aircraft, crappy flying" from the DAL side. You would think that REGARDLESS of the integration method, that they would say "you want 10 year fences? whoo hoo! Good deal!.
But as you point out, all of a sudden, that's not what they want. A close look at their proposal shows that it lowers the fence just as NWA retirements crank up, giving them full access to highest paying postions in NWA metal.
But it doesn't matter. The fix is in. They won't win, and neither will we.
Nu
Exactly, IF the fence was ever to happen, when the time came for the fence to come down EVERYONE will have moved up in overall seniority and the ONLY downfall for the DAL side would be that they couldn't bid our UNDESIRABLE positions that they didn't want in the first place. Therefore during that time the NWA side could benefit from OUR aircraft just as their side can with theirs. Our side would move up into OUR positions quicker because of the retirements but thats ok right? I mean afterall they're all already in their DESIRED positions.
The fence does NOTHING to hurt the DAL pilots except block them from our equipment that they didn't want in the first place.
Overall we will ALL move up in overall seniority regardless of the fence. Its ONLY the specific positions that are fenced during the 10 years not seniority numbers. After the assumed fence, the top of the DELTA list would be mostly original DAL pilots. The fence give the NWA side time to get into the positions we wanted before the DAL guys reaped the benefits of our retirements following the tearing down of the fence.
Moot point because neither side will likely get what they want which is what makes these discussions
almost pointless.