Originally Posted by
rickair7777
There are conflicting requirements here....
The RAH scope requires everyone on one list.
F9 pilots have a contract, which will be binding on the new owners (unless modified in BK).
There is a new federal law requiring "Fair and Equitable" integration of seniority lists.
The only obvious way to satisfy all three legal and contractual requirements is to merge
- F9 into RAH (Satisfies RAH Scope)
- Fence F9 so all F9 FO's can upgrade into airbii (satisfies the integration law)
- Keep F9 payscales for Aibii (satisfies F9 pilot contract).
If you do it any other way, you violate a law or contract, make a lot of folks angry, and spend years in arbitration/lawsuits.
There is one other really ugly scenario, but it depends on F9 scope with regards to code-shares...if there are no restrictions on code-share, the good reverend could simply fire the F9 pilots, shift the arbii to RAH and fly them as a code-share in F9 paint...virtual airline. Or he could sell the airbii and use 190s.
If you any of you RAH types think YOU should upgrade ahead of a 7-year F9 FO, you need to be slapped silly. Ya'll should just sit down shut up and hope like heck that F9 payscales make into your contract, and not vice-versa.
Rick if you can point me in a better direction I'll thank you for it but as far as I can tell "fair and equitable" isn't anything defined about how list must be merged but instead a promise that due process will be afforded to everyone. One union can submit to another their proposal and the other can deny or accept then counter and eventually go to arbitration. I've understood it to afford each group the same liberties and process that must be followed allowing each to object or agree at key points. Kind of like how each criminal is guaranteed a certain due process. He might be on video committing murder but he's still entitled to the full legal system.