Originally Posted by
Justdoinmyjob
No, you do not allow the mainline pilots the ability to try and claim something they gave up. When I left ASA, I resigned my seniority number. I now have no rights to that nujmer and the associated DOH that went with it. With the staple, the Guy who left ASA one week prior to the staple would have bidding seniority to everyone stapled below him. However, those guys would be getting more pay and vacation than him, based on their DOH. Are we now going to be Socialists and complain because someone junior to us for bidding is making more money? If that's the case, then I want a cut of everyone junior to me who rakes it in doing Rolling Thunder.
It would be completely unfair for that pilot that had 15 years at a regional and then went to Major to be put behind a pilot at a regional that has less total years. If that is the case than I would just push for all the regional pilot's to get stapled below the Major pilots. This is why all mergers go bad because you aren't looking at total service of each pilot on the list.
The only pilots that should go above a mainline pilot on a merged list are those with significantly more 121 time than the pilots on the major list. A regional pilot with 20+ years would start to fall into this catagory.
If you say that pilot who left ASA doesn't have any right to count those 15 years of service, then I would say the pilot who is currently at ASA with 10 years deserves zero years of credit because he never got hired at the Major level yet... to the bottom of the list you go.