Originally Posted by
Terry Hunter
I would suggest that if any one group (in a three group merger) is entirely below another, it would be referred to as a 'staple'. Would anyone disagree with that suggestion?
It was a category/class arrangment, and it just so happened that one of the airlines had no pilots that fit into the first two categories. I'm not saying it was the most fair proposal. Perhaps doing jet captain-prop captain-jet FO-prop FO would have been better.