Originally Posted by
CaptainNameless
How do you "poach" a seniority list if everyone keeps their relative seniority regardless of hire date? If a single list was agreed to based on maintaining relative seniority, how does upgrade become more difficult at all? Please explain this to me because I want to understand.
What I am saying is it will not be a date of hire integration, if that's the big fear.
DOH isn't the fear. Loss of domiciles is the big fear. Perhaps this could be mitigated with fences.
As for your question about upgrades with a relative seniority list, just consider a scenario where the airline gets 20 aircraft, resulting in 100 new captain spots. On a list where you are 400 away from the junior captain, you will get about 25% closer to the left seat. On a combined list where you are now 1,200 away, you move a whopping 8.3 %.
Management is very good at dangling carrots and hinting at future growth. Many pilots have bought into. If you think growth is just around the corner (as many at SKW do) and are junior, you don't want a combined list.