Originally Posted by Carl Spackler

I know you're probably a victim of knowing only what your former Republic pilot father tells you, but here are the facts:

Former NWA guys wanted a ratio because Date of Hire would have resulted in NWA guys losing over 25% in relative position. Former Republic guys wanted Date of Hire because they liked the idea of jumping up over 25% in relative position on the new list. The arbitrator ruled Date of Hire, but only under one condition: Since the Date of Hire created such a huge imbalance in relative position, and since Republic brought ZERO wide bodies to the merger, Date of Hire must be accompanied by a 20 fence off the wide bodies.

Here's the best part though...since the former Republic pilots got the 25% move up the combined list by winning Date of Hire, they've done even better now that the SLI with Delta went via ratio. I as a former NWA pilot was ratioed into the new Delta list 25% down from where a former Republic pilot was ratioed.

So what exactly did NWA pilots DO to Republic pilots again?

Carl