Originally Posted by
B727gypsy
There was an idea floated for DL/NW that never took off that seemed fair to me. Merge the lists based on ratios but keep the numbers separated by pre-merger airline.
When a UA pilot retires the UA pilots move up among the UA numbers and the same for CO retirees. If you are the bottom/top of the list today you are on the bottom/top of the list after the SLI. If you were going to retire in the top 1% you will still retire in the top 1%. It avoids the windfall today of an unbalanced integration and the windfall tomorrow of getting slotted behind a much younger group and stuck in a log jam.
No windfall and career expectations are similar.
So it's still 2 pilot groups operating in their original domiciles with their original equipment, but they happen to use the same callsign and have the same contract? What happens if Smisek moves A320s to EWR or 787s to ORD?