I am one of those NWA '95 hires who can say I did, "ok." For some reason '94-'95 hires here got more of a retirement bump than the others. With those who were hired at the beginning of '95 doing better than they would have done if the arbitrator had gone DOH.

That being said, I think the rest of our list got the shaft. Especially our '98-'01 hires. It seems that they did not get the same projected retirement "bump." I know part of it is because of where the 274 "pulled out" retirements came from on the list relative to them, but why did some of them lose relative seniority? ?

I know it's all about luck, but if I were hired 1 year earlier I would have been mixed in with DAL '91 hires and 51% of the list; a year later would have out me in with DAL late '97 hires and 35% of the list. A difference of almost 2000 numbers.

So, I know I'm lucky, I just want to know why? Mathematicians please step up.

Just wondering...


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