Originally Posted by Herkflyr

How are you getting the shaft? If you are a mid-level A330 FO now...you will be after the merger. You claim we will benefit from your retirements, but how about all of ours that kick in a few years later? Oh yeah, your proposed fence ends right about then...hmmm...

Our MEC has always proclaimed that we want a negotiated, fair and equitable agreement, and that putting it into the hands of arbitrators is a failure of leadership. However, we aren't going to accept a poor SLI just for the sake of "a negotiated agreement."

I haven't met ONE Delta guy who wants to "screw" the NWA pilots, nor have I met ONE who even wants to fly the whale, much less longs for some nefarious SLI that will somehow steal your upgrade opportunities. We just want to see the same opportunities available to us one, two, and ten years down the road as we have now. We DON'T want to see anyone displaced from the -9 and 747-200 at all, but if it happens, we don't think we should have to eat the backwards movements that your displacements create.

Likewise, if the story changes and mgmt decides that the M88 has to go and the -9 stays, neither should any of your guys have to eat the displacements that our aircraft leaving would create. Is that too much to ask?