Originally Posted by
jayray2
Very good points. All spot on. How can a pilot group from a company which is going away and has no contract protection claim a date of hire integration is unfair? They have no leg to stand on. As a junior pilot at Mesaba, a date of hire integration is the only fair way I see to do this. I have no idea where I would sit at Pinnacle or Colgan, but date of hire would still get my vote (if we were voting).
Your post is naive at best. To say Colgan has "no leg to stand on" is comical when you consider that your airline is dropping all of their props and all of their jets are going to Pinnacle. So whose company is really going away?
This is exactly why the pilots of each airline are not in involved in SLI. Every pilot has their own idea of what is "fair" and 9/10 times their idea of fair just happen to be the best outcome for them, what a surprise.
You can keep going back and forth on what way is the "best" when at the end of the day it will be a combination of factors and methods involved, whether this happens in 3 months or 3 years is anyone's guess.