Originally Posted by
Godzilla
The Nicalou agreement awarded the top 517 slots on a combined list to the East.
Assuming senior pilots want to fly international on the A 330 its safe to assume it will be East pilots flying these trips.
You seem to be somewhat ignorant of what is actually taking place in the integration.
My question to you is how many of those top 517 pilots will retire in the 5 years following 2012? If their list is anything like CAL, AA, UAL or the old NWA (DAL bought out many of their older pilots), there will be a quite large number of baby boomers retiring very soon (often upwards of 20% of the respective seniority lists), at which point all those senior slots will be vacated and filled in by a larger proportion of West guys.
I'm sure I don't have all the facts you do, but I'm also pretty sure that I'm more objective about what I do know based solely on my apathy to the outcome. Both sides of this merger are so emotionally charged that I don't think you could make both sides happy simultaneously, just on principle!