Originally Posted by
MD80
Pilots should be dealing with pilots and hammer out a fair deal. If the new Republic is going to be worth working at Republic, Midwest and Frontier pilots have to...
1. Merge everyone on one seniority list
2. Review scope language for any loop holes
3. Integrate in a fair way so the working enviroment will be good.
NO ONE SHOULD BE LOOKING TO GAIN ANYTHING IN THE FIRST YEAR
4. Improve the pay for the E190 and for FOs (the top FO pay is criminal)
5. Improve retirement funding
6. Keep the unions and attorneys out of it
You know most of your list is trying to get accomplished. As opposed to most of the keyboard warriors think on here, these things do no happen overnight and will take a while to get accomplished. Unfortunately the unions and attorneys are a necessary evil when it comes to dealing with integration and hammering out new TA's with the company.
It would be great if every detail in integrating 4 airlines into an existing 3 airline seniority list was sorted out in the time it took me to type this post but in the real world it doesn't happen like that.