At 29 years seniority I had hoped to transfer to SFO to be number 1, not number 10

 

No worries bro....you will. I am hoping to transfer to JFK and just be a lineholder at 19 years

 

Do you not understand that a relative integration by definition preserves your relative seniority? A straight DOH gives Alaska pilots a huge boost to their relative seniority. No Alaska pilot would ever be on reserve and they would be able to hold weekends off. Meanwhile, a Virgin pilot who was a line holder goes back to reserve overnight.

 

Remove first 300 super senior Alaska pilots and place them on the side. Then relative seniority starting at 301 (assume that’s the new #1), once your done re-paste the 300 back on top of the list and call it a day. Solved.

 

It is not a straight doh. You start at 2007 since that is when you were created. You then do the 1 for 3 or what ever the ratio is. That is all you deserve. Sorry but that is life.

 

Can't wait to fly with you. You sound like an awesome guy!

 

No need to mention the age. VX has 2007 pilots who are in their 40s, 50s and 60s.

And how is "matching" those two guys going to realistically adversely affect the QOL of the AS guy when they are in different bases, on different fleets and the AS guy will probably retire in 5 years or so?

With that kind of hubris I suspect you are going to be devastated come September......

 

Did a Virgin pilot sleep with your wife or something? What is with the hostility?

Sorry, but that is only your opinion and the history of airline mergers indicates that your opinion is extremely unlikely to be shared by anyone in charge.

 

To the Virgin Atlantic (est. 1984) and Virgin Australia (est. 1999) guys, what would you say? It wouldn't have been unreasonable for someone to hope for a long and healthy career under the Virgin brand. Remind me to consult you for my next career decision, Joe, since you seem to have some clairvoyance about an industry that seems highly unpredictable.

You have some say in who represents you... so that's something. Something > nothing

This seems overly callous. If Virgin was the first airline for all of its pilots, maybe you'd be right. But it ain't. Lots of them have slugged through the industry for many years and finally found a port that offered some semblance of stability, even if only for 11 years.

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This has been my $0.02 from a outsider's perspective. How this ends up will be interesting though, especially with the Alaska/Hawaiian merger on the horizon

 

Not my fault they chose wrong, but they're getting 7 years of free seniority without earning it while my AS MEC represents them in their efforts.

My blue (which is supposed to be orange but they caved on that too like everything else) lanyard is in the trash.