Originally Posted by
NuGuy
Heyas,
By and large, the arbitrators want an award to be defensible and uncomplicated, and they don't like making new policy.
Nu
It shouldn't be difficult: just use the old ALPA policy of career expecations. Calculate the expected career yearly earnings of each AAI and SWA pilot at Sep 27th, 2010 and assign seniority numbers based on that. Every pilot will stay in line with what they thought there earnings wouldv'e been--and then the AAI pilots will enjoy a big jump on the same calculation when moved to the SWAPA contract. Now everyone's happy