Originally Posted by
Captain Bligh
You can rest assured that the CAL team, under the leadership of Captain Brucia, has made some strong arguments for years of service. Brucia, who wrote, "...where I differ with my fellow members of the Board is in the area of credit that should be given to a pilot based on date of hire and the pilot's resulting length of service", will cause a bit of a dilemma for the junior CAL pilots.
But you forget to mention the context of that statement. Everything is different when explained in context.
Capt. Brucia was on the arbitration panel of the USAirways pilot seniority list integration. He had a problem with the fact that the USAirways EAST pilots who were recalled AFTER the merger was announced were put below America West pilots who were relatively new. They were for all intents and purposes treated as still furloughed while the SLI process was happening and not given credit for the fact that they had been flying before, were furloughed and had now been recalled before the list was finalized. So, his argument was that they should have been given different consideration and placed higher on the seniority list since they were recalled and back to work and not still furloughed.