3 way seniority integration-Fire Away
#21
If 3 separate lists are brought together, everyone seems to agree that it would most likely be the lists that were in effect either on the announcement date or the POR.
With this in mind, in a 3-way combination, is it possible that a pre-AA merger US East new hire (someone hired in 2006-2012) could end up senior to a West pilot hired before the HP/US merger?
With this in mind, in a 3-way combination, is it possible that a pre-AA merger US East new hire (someone hired in 2006-2012) could end up senior to a West pilot hired before the HP/US merger?
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I'm just a regional FO, and I'm willing to be educated on this, but why would someone hired at East or West after the merger announcement have any expectation of being senior to anyone already on property prior to the announcement?
Seems to me that the only reason that the disparities that you mention exist is because of the legal maneuverings that have kept the East and West lists separate.
Seems to me that the only reason that the disparities that you mention exist is because of the legal maneuverings that have kept the East and West lists separate.
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In the end, the arbitrator is keen on evenly distributing pilots. Both sides (USAPA and APA) can try to appreciate their positions with maximum credits, but the arbitrator will cut through all of this inflation for an award.
Review of the most recent UAL-CAL award is beneficial insight into how Arbitrator Eishen operates.
Review of the most recent UAL-CAL award is beneficial insight into how Arbitrator Eishen operates.
I don't think any single arbitrator will dominate. In reviewing the UAL-CAL award, Eischen didn't say "I" or "me", but instead along with Kaplan and Nolan said "we" and "our" in summarizing their closing to explain how they crafted their hybrid ISL from the various arguments. Although it's likely that there will be many similarities in our final ISL as the UAL-CAL model, I think the most important thing to glean from that award is THEIR position that "each case turns on its own facts".
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The argument for SLI purposes of what mainline (be it AA legacy, East or West) would have done is speculative and it's tough to say how the arbitration PANEL will weigh that component suffice it to say that at least in the UAL-CAL SLI, both the pre-merger situations of the carriers was considered as was fleet composition, which included both orders and options.
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My point being that if you just did a hypothetical relative seniority integration of the East and West list, with all the "Third Listers" as part of the East list, the Westies would be justified in being more than a little upset with that. Ultimately Third Listers should be junior to anyone hired prior to the announcement of the East/West Merger.
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Not that I support this thinking, but I see this as a big risk for the junior West pilots if they do, in fact, get their own merger committee. Using their own merger logic from the HP/US merger would have them treated exactly the way the 17 year pilot was in the Nic.
May you live in interesting times.
May you live in interesting times.
Those are all assumptions.
It seems tough to argue against a result that becomes a "new" Nic, just one that treats the West like the original Nic treated the East. In consideration of that, MAYBE the West is now being very careful about what they ask for ?
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Not all new orders at AA are replacement. The order was perhaps 460 aircraft and adding up the S80 and 75/76 fleets, some of those Airbus and 737 orders are indeed for expansion. The 777 orders especially are for expansion along with the 787 (primarily destined for ultra long-haul that are not done by 767 or any other aircraft). Since pre-merger widebody opportunities will likely be a consideration, one could expect the pre-merger fleet plans to be an issue.
The argument for SLI purposes of what mainline (be it AA legacy, East or West) would have done is speculative and it's tough to say how the arbitration PANEL will weigh that component suffice it to say that at least in the UAL-CAL SLI, both the pre-merger situations of the carriers was considered as was fleet composition, which included both orders and options.
The argument for SLI purposes of what mainline (be it AA legacy, East or West) would have done is speculative and it's tough to say how the arbitration PANEL will weigh that component suffice it to say that at least in the UAL-CAL SLI, both the pre-merger situations of the carriers was considered as was fleet composition, which included both orders and options.
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Because that claim was simply a clumsily played pre-contract posturing move by Horton. At the very same time Horton was "floating" that possibility (early post bankruptcy in very early 2012), Hale was on record as saying he was exactly that same amount SHORT of pilots for the Summer 2012 schedule. In fact (and not assumption), through the entire bankruptcy and to this day, this carrier is short of pilots in virtually all statuses and that was under both Horton and now Parker. Green trips are rare to non-existent as proof, at least on the AA legacy side.
Not to worry, the arbitration PANEL will correctly evaluate what was reality and what was fiction in the three pre-merger carriers conditions and likely future both absent the merger and with it just as the PANEL did in the UAL-CAL SLI.
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"In the exercise of caution, we have also constructed the list on a
no-growth basis, using the fleet as it existed on January 1, 2007, and
giving no weight to pre-merger orders except to the extent that any
such additions were in place as of January 1, 2007. Our judgment as to
the fleet is based, not on asserted expectations as both sides urged,
but on reality. Particularly in this day and age, with airline instability a
way of life, it makes little sense to rely on pre-merger projections. This
is especially the case here when the financial picture of both airlines
was less than optimum. A January 1, 2007 list also is a closer
reflection of reality on the merged airline."
You never know what you will get in arbitration and I'll bet everyone is surprised by at least one thing in the outcome.
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