Originally Posted by
zoooropa
The reason only a portion of the YX guys have been "talked about" is based upon the fact that "active" pilots have been treated completely different than "inactive" pilots historically speaking, especially with respect to SLI arbitrations. Furloughs have historically received some fairly harsh treatment.
Has anyone actually read some of the arbitration's that have occurred over the past 50 years? If you are a RAH guy, or YX guy, or F9 guy, I can't imagine not trying to learn about how this process has evolved.
If you read three or four arbitrations you will find that the format is very similiar, almost as if they have a boiler-plate document and they just fill in the blanks. If you read a dozen or so you will begin to see the same exact sentences written over and over, mostly because the same exact arbitrators have been ruling on this topic for the past five decades, and they are also the same gentlemen that appear on everyone's short list for this merger.
The MEH MEC will be making several different arguments on behalf of several different groups of furloughed pilots. The fact that last fall direct replacement of MEH pilots by RAH 170's , leads me to believe that this will not just follow a historical pattern. At a minimum this is somewhat unique.