Originally Posted by
NuGuy
It fluctuates, but overall, a NWA guy is slotted in with a DAL guy hired a year to a year and a half later. There are some pockets the other way...a bud of mine was a late 95 hire and got slotted before 91 DAL hires, and some of the guys hired in late 2000/01 got slammed behind 07 DAL hires.
Nu
This would have been a better answer to the question posed (your adjectives seem a little melodramatic) :
Grant123,
The following is what was published by the merger committee to explain the methodology after the arbitration ran its full course.
In the arbitration panel's opinion it attempts to provide the benefit of upcoming retirements for FNWA pilots and also makes every effort to preserve a pilot's "bidding ability"(aka relative seniority) from pre-merger list and post-merger list. There are areas of the seniority list that
fluctuate considerably in Date of Hire relativity due to the fact that DAL and NWA did not hire at the same time or at the same rate over the last 25 years.
Constructing the Integrated System Seniority List
The ISSL has been constructed from the pre-merger Delta and pre-merger Northwest pilot seniority lists in effect on November 1, 2008, as provided to the Panel by the parties, in the manner set forth below. The relative position of each pilot on the pre-merger lists remained unchanged on the ISSL.
1. All pilots on long-term sick leave (12 months or longer) were removed from the premerger lists.
2. The 274 oldest Northwest pilots were removed from the pre-merger list.
3. The first 3045 positions on the ISSL were filled with the first 1961 Delta pilots and 1084 Northwest pilots on the pre-merger lists in a ratio of 1961:1084 beginning with a Delta pilot.
4. The next 2433 positions on the ISSL were filled with the next 1313 Delta pilots and 1120 Northwest pilots on the pre-merger lists in a ratio of 1313:1120 beginning with a Delta pilot.
5. The next 3932 positions on the ISSL were filled with the next 2580 Delta pilots and 1352 Northwest pilots on the pre-merger lists in a ratio of 2580:1352 beginning with a Delta pilot.
6. The ISSL was completed with Delta and Northwest pilots remaining on the pre-merger lists in a ratio of 1314:957 Delta to Northwest pilots beginning with a Delta pilot until both pre-merger lists are exhausted subject to paragraph 7, below.
7. All pilots with dates of hire after April 14, 2008, were placed at the bottom of the ISSL in order of date of hire.
8. The Northwest pilots pulled in paragraph 2. were inserted directly above the next junior Northwest pilot.
9. The pilots on long-term sick leave pulled in paragraph 1. were inserted directly above the next junior pilot on his/her respective pre-merger list.