20/20 hindsight is rearing it's ugly head. Our (l-ual) negotiating team lost several battles with Pierce, who took full advantage of the hammer he had with respect to our 2003 Bankruptcy contract signed under duress. That concessionary contract put heat on the Negotiating Team to get a deal. And Pierce stood in the way; demanding things like merged pay-scale demands with the 737 and 767-400. It was a hard swallow to agree to these demands to get a contract. So the Negotiating Team had to come thru on the fences - which historically are issues that are demanded by merged airlines. Good or Bad, they are here to stay - at least for a while. So enjoy the 787...for now

That's what I wear on my days off. All the girls' eyes are on me when I walk into the local KFC!

Does anyone know how these current max/mins were derived?

The last bid had 75 EWR76t FO vacancies to fill and roughly 15-20 were filled. but this max/min bulletin shows EWR76t FOs at max of 96 now? What happened to the rest of the 60 vacancies?

Fences were asked for by the Merger Cmte, not the Neg Cmte. There wasn't an LUA or LCAL Neg Cmte either, there was a JointNC comprised of both teams.

Yup my mistake on that typo, it was late at night. I meant to say merger committee, not neg.

Everything Pierce did, he did to affect the SLI.

In the end, all his shenanigans failed to have any influence on the combined seniority list.

He lost.

He hurt us all (LCAL and LUAL) in the process.

Is he over in management yet??

By going unfilled that puts them in the pool of available assignments for recallee/new hires. However, the company doesn't have to assign all of them so I don't think they include any of them in the bulletin numbers. As those assignments are given out to recallees or new hires then they will be included in the numbers.

So, I think that these numbers are based on the current bids held by the pilots that are actually on the property.

a more realistic snap shot has been posted no DEN, IAH or ORD backfills for FOs and junior CA is EWR 737 6264.

That sounds more realistic. I am surprised how senior the 737 in EWR is going. I'm sure as these bids continue, we will see it trend back towards a more junior position. One of the reasons it was soo junior on the CAL side premerger was because anything less than 50% in base absolutely sucked, especially during the summer. It is always chronically understaffed, very few trips are commutable and the reserves are abused. Now add in the three airport deal and there are probably some Siberian prisons that will be more welcoming. I did it for two years at about 70% in base. I still have the scars.

The island flying is fun however for those who love flying and have no family.

Excellent post. I think the bid is at this seniority because they will ALL be line holders . The junior one on this snapshot should be in the 65ish% range.