Originally Posted by
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Bingo. The fact that the merger will mainly produce an airline that has one or two types of aircraft types with basically the same pay makes a relative position SLI more probable. The career expectations are the same. Right? Anything else, you are arguing that the arbitrator should take into account fairness based on when you get to take vacation, bid schedules, ect. Typically, I don't think these are things they care about.
Are you going to be in the same position, seat-and aircraft wise, you were in before? If so, that's fine with them. Career expectation-wise, where are you going to go that's different? A 737 is a 737.
Respectfully, that sure does not sound like it agrees with the arbitrators decision in the Chautauqua-Shuttle America decision as listed in the beginning of this thread. These are his words concerning career expectations:
"This Arbitrator agrees that the "reasonable" career expectations of the two pilot groups is the benchmark for determining what is fair and equitable in this case."
"On this basis alone, the integration of Shuttle America Pilots into the Chautauqua operation has substantially increased career expectation for the Shuttle America Pilots, far beyond what they could have reasonably expected when they "signed on" as pilots for Shuttle America."