Originally Posted by
shredder
Pilots were unhappy with their contract. They voted to strike. Strikes can destroy companies and careers. A strike vote is a serious expression of dissatisfaction with your "career expectations".
Seems pretty simple to me. Not sure how much you want to read into it. Just a simple statement that seems very relevant to this discussion.
Well, for some reason, the Northwest strike factored little to nothing in the DAL-NWA merger. There, you have precedent... the arbitrator will not look at "strike vote" or "history" when drumming up a seniority list.
As an outsider, I have to "LoL" at SWA pilots' attempts to make the 737 into two different aircraft, a 73-LP at AAI, and a 73-BP at SWA... then to say that since they're company has the BP version, the seniority integration should be affected by it.
The only hope (for the industry) is that, no matter what the outcome of the ARBITRATED list (it's clear where it's going), is that both pilot groups agree to be bound by it, and don't start a petty game later on, if it's not "the result they wanted/expected".