General Lee
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Fins and Puff Daddy,
Help me understand your and puffys idea of relative seniority. IF those 2007 hires really get onto the 777 or 88A do you really believe that should blend in with 96 or 97 dohs from our side? If that is what dalpas idea of relative seniority is you are suggesting a essentially a staple of the last 1500-2000 nwa pilots with the bulk being hired prior to 2000. I don't believe the arbitration panel would agree either. I understand relative to be relative. 59% today 59% manana. Anything other than that would be a win fall for y'all. If there is a gross disparity of dohs, I predict a very angry unmotivated portion of the seniority list. Not good for any of us, nor the success of the company.
I think there will be some wiggle room with respect to aircraft size and payscale, but mostly will be relative seniority. If you are in the bottom 5% of your company, you will be in the bottom 5% of the merged company. You can say NWA has more senior guys, but they also still have a frozen pension, and a lot more smaller, older planes. NWA hired 160 something guys since recalling the furloughed pilots, and Delta hired almost 600. I just don't think those 760 pilots will be at the bottom exclusively. Also, I know NWA will have a bunch of retirements in the next few years. The DL side will have the same amount about 5 years after that. Both of those will benefit all of us remaining pilots.
The one thing that may throw a lot of this off, though, is payscale. We are all negotiating this with the "old" payscales, and that does not help the NWA side, since a 3rd year pilot at DL is easily on the 767 making $100 an hour, and at NWA that 3rd year guy might be on the minibus, but probably on the DC9, and making a lot less. That will be the wildcard with the arbitrators. We shall see.
Bye Bye--General Lee
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