Originally Posted by
jsled
No crack needed. You have 46 widebodies. Do you think it's fair to do straight r/s if half of UAL's w/b captains end up junior to CAL 737 captains? I believe this integration will take into account Status and Category...at least thats what ALPA merger policy says.
e. The merger representatives shall carefully weigh all the equities inherent in their merger situation. In joint session, the merger representatives should attempt to match equities to various methods of integration until a fair and equitable integrated seniority list is reached. Factors to be considered in constructing a fair and equitable integrated seniority list, in no particular order and with no particular weight, shall include but not be limited to the following:
(1) Career Expectations.
(2) Longevity.
(3) Status and category.
No its not fair and straight relative seniority is not how it will be done. It doesn't matter what the pilot population at each carrier says, it will be done according to ALPA policy and the cases put forth by the merger committees. DAL/NWA didn't go straight relative seniority because of the widebody differences, yet most ended up pretty darn close to their previous relative seniority.
There's no sense in everyone throwing stones on here or anywhere as it won't matter a damn what you think. The majority does not rule in an SLI.
If we get all wound up and ****y with each other over the SLI, which we don't really have any control over and won't be voting on, how are we going to fight together to get a kick ass JCBA?
We have a
BIG fight ahead of us. King Smisek has nocturnal emissions over 70 seat jets flown by Colgan and Gulfstream. He's been salivating over that for a while now. It's one of the many lame-ass reasons for the Delta + $1 BS they threw at us. We need to focus on what we can control and let the merger committees do their thing.