Originally Posted by
FAULTPUSH
Like I said, windfalls are not a problem unless they come at the expense of the other group. In a pure percentage merger, a 10% AAI captain and a 10% SWA both keep their same relative seniority, so where is the windfall for the AAI guy?
If you paste the senior AAI guy behind however many SWA guys, they gain lots of relative seniority at the expense of the AAI guy - he no longer gets his 1st choice of line, vacation, domicile, etc. That's windfall for the SWA guys at the expense of the AAI guys.
Maybe the windfall for the aai guy who just got a 13 year relative bump in seniority, a huge increase in qol, and a 100k plus increase in pay is at the expense of the SWA pilots who have been at SWA longer than the aai pilot Aai pilot at airtran. Maybe???? Seems like a windfall to me.