Originally Posted by
tsquare
You are rolling your eyes... but I think Frog's point is somewhat valid. Why is it that the aforementioned fNWA bases were rolled over without a rebid while the SLC base is a COMPLETE rebid? Because there is some mythical international flying that might now/someday originate in SLC????? This seems to me to be a goose/gander case if I ever saw one. Why should the one way check valve only work when adding domestic time to an international category and not the other way around? As someone pointed out (was it Frog?) Give 'em a TOE.. and call it good. I'll be happy to go to SLC on TDY and fly TOEs there.
But.... I SMELL CONCESSION HERE..... A bunch of dudes in SLC are fixing to get boned, in order to streamline something which does not yet exist. It's wrong.
Spin it any way you like.
T, quite a few guys have been getting boned all along. The seniority list was supposed to address the entire group and their careers; in reality it didn't and just ended up being a ratio across the board. That being said, I am sure most of the guys in SLC are senior, when considering date of hire, to their fNWA brethren across the system. Sure there will be some people, myself included, sent packing again on one of many MDs since this merger; this life of a seniority based contract in the middle of a merger.
If the LAX pilot base of the world's largest airline had more than 450 pilots in categories combined, I bet SLC would hold even more lower seniority guys. Again, hate to keep reiterating this, but Alaska scope and a merger is hurting fDAL SLC pilots, not so much converting a guy to international on a 757. I don't know of any other airlines having domestic 757 categories... A total of 120 737 pilots in California; a state with a population so large that 1 in 6 of all US residents live there. Scope, it includes code shares... SLC is turning into a refuge for DFW and LAX pilots; quite honestly, formers issues and scope/codeshare concessions that DAL brought to the table.