Originally Posted by
Denny Crane
Opus,
My guess would be that the retirements were already taken into account thru 1Nov. If not, I can see a definate advantage to the pre-merger Delta side and I'm sure your merger committee would have raised the BS flag on that. I'd lay strong odds that the lists were updated or it would not have been fair. If the arbitrators could not get a Nov 1 list from your committee, then to be fair, they should have used both July seniority lists for the integration.
Denny
Denny,
I pulled this from the Arbitrators Decision Document.
We have chosen, instead, to recognize the fleets as divided
simply into wide-body and narrow-body groupings, two for Captains, two for FOs.
12 For
purposes of counting aircraft and staffing assumptions,13 thus creating ratios in each
category, we have selected a “snapshot” date of July 1, 2008.
I thought that meant that they used a list from each side based on that date. If that were correct, wouldn't that mean that pilots who retired AFTER July 1, 2008 are on the combined list?
I'm still trying to digest it all, and what's worse is I may not even be talking about what you guys are.
I just thought I'd point it out.