Fine then fence all existing aircraft at both sides to their respective pilot groups until the retirement boon at airways is over. AWA keeps their career expectations and so does the AAA guys. Fill all new aircraft with the percentages that existed prior to the merger. AWA gets what their list would have provided, as does Airways.
If the regionals can keep up with the ratios of seats required for the J4J program, airways should be able to figure it out.
As it stands now, AWA will be the only ones who benefit from USAirs 70% retirement rate over the next 10 years.
Great Idea. Build a HUGE fence. Then all the new aircraft go to the west side cause they had planes on order and were hiring. The east, by your rational, will then park all their 73's and furlough the pilots in seniority order, because (again due to your rational) they were shrinking and parking airplanes. I think the west would go for that. By your on comments this should be ok with you. That was what was going on when the merger happened.
As far as Airways bettering their position....who are we kidding here, the young AWA guys are the one bettering their position at the expense of the 20 year airways guys. "Hello, I was hired in 2004 by AWA, now here it is 2009 and I am a widebody Captain with USAir" That statement was not made possible by what AWA brought to the table in equipment and retirements.
Great sound bite. But it is high on emotion and low on truth.
If you believe that a 04 west hire will be flying a widebody let alone 757 by 2009 you are nuts. Nice try though didn't pass the smell test.
You may want to check those retirement figures to see exactly how many of those seats are filled with FO's. I believe its about 50%. Almost all of the west guys are four stripers.
Don't get me wrong, I was once an east guy and had the time of my life there. That being said there is no excuse for their actions now. They may just put AAA out of business with the loss of about 50,000 jobs due to their childish behavior. They chose arbitration and got relative seniority. Yet that's not good enough so let's burn the company down. Great idea guys.
One more thing, if and when parker gets tired of all the east's crap and he sells it off, I would assume the buyer, say maybe UAL would not want the problem children of the east and all the headaches the bring They would have parker bankrupt the company, throw out LOA 93 and the fragmantation protections and sell the pieces off WITHOUT the pilots. Think this is out of the question? I'm betting its already on the table. Parker's merger plan will only work if the airlines merge PERIOD. The company will fragment or cease to exist if the east pilots do as they say they say they will do and force parker to never merge so the Nicleau list cannot be applied.
Again I was an east pilot I just am ashamed that they would act this way enlight of the fact that they agreed to the process. What makes it worse is their attempt to extort ALPA into forcing the west pilots to modify the list until it suits them. That is wrong and where does that leave ALPA when the next round of mergers takes place? This whole thing is disgusting
