Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
I've already made one, but you all hated it because it didn't involve surrender. A great compromise would be a straight ratio right down to the exact .0000001% with dynamic seniority based on ACTUAL attrition. If I recall, the average negative response was: "as long as the dynamic seniority involves everything that could possibly be anticipated now and in the future."
Carl
Carl, upon further review I might be able, just barely, and with much trepidation, hesitation, and in need of further clarifications, to accept, on a highly contingent and conditional basis, with possible need of further modifications, your proposal.
By staight ratio I assume you mean 7/5 or 1.4/1? (1:1 ratio would, of course, result in 2000 DL on the bottom......where have I heard that before?
) Would the dynamic list run until everyone currently on the property was gone?(or should it run only as long as NW has more retirements?...hmmm...might have a problem with that) Or would it run until we
both had say, 500 or 200 or 1000 retirements from the top half of our lists? Rumor has it that this list (with everyone currently on the property) was "run" in previous negotiations and resulted in the NW pilots being "swamped" by DL retirements after 2020, and thus rejected.
What about the risk of the DC-9? and 747-200? Would your group be willing to take responsibility for the risks your group brings to the merger, in the form of those outmoded and uneconomical aircraft? say, for 3-5 yrs? (yes, we would take responsibility for ours) Would you be willing to accept a fence, or some mechanism, to contain that risk?