Originally Posted by
beka4u
Ok, I guess you missed the word "continuous".
Nope, I saw it.
But just for kicks, would you mind telling us just how many AAA pilots have 18 years of continuous, uninterrupted employment who were placed junior to 3-5 year AWA pilots on the Nic list?
Would you then mind telling us what those pilots' actual seniority at AAA was before the merger was announced, and what their seniority is under the Nicholau award?
Percentage does not matter in this industry, it is all about your seniority number/ DOH. Like I said in a previous post, everything in a Pilot's career is based on their date of hire.
No, everything in a pilot's career is based on their S-E-N-I-O-R-I-T-Y.
It doesn't seem to be registering with you that even having a DOH in the late 80s/early 90s, a good number of AAA pilots weren't remotely close to having seniority (commonly measured as a percentage derived by your seniority number divided by the total active pilot group) at US Airways at the date the merger was announced.
You and your entire union/pilot group have yet to offer a compelling argument why they should gain seniority they NEVER had at the expense of AWA pilots other than "we've been at our airline longer than they have."
Especially when some of those AAA pilots with an entitlement complex were on furlough while pilots at AWA with later DOHs were active.
What were you doing in 1987?
I was playing in a sandbox and watching Sesame Street in 1987.
How exactly is that pertinent to a discussion of how SENIORITY is not remotely the same thing as LONGEVITY (a concept pretty much everybody except East pilots and the USAPA understands), or why a AAA pilot who was junior when the merger was announced is entitled to a combined seniority position greater than what he had the day before the merger was announced?