hockeypilot44
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Are you under the impression that ALPA created the merged USAir seniority list? How can you place blame on ALPA for what a neutral arbitrator decided?
I know exactly what happened in the USAir situation. Mid-Atlantic was not an airline. It was a separate contract that covered USAir pilots operating USAir aircraft on the USAir operating certificate. The furloughed USAirways' pilots were allowed to bypass recall to Mid-Atlantic (USAir). This created a situation where junior USAir pilots were active USAir pilots and some senior USAir pilots were still voluntarily furloughed (they didn't want to fly for USAir under a different contract than every other fleet). The so-called neutral arbitrator decided to fix ALPA's mistake by simplifying things and just calling all the MidAtlantic pilots furloughed (even though they were active USAir pilots). So yes, I blame ALPA. The arbitrator was placed in a no win situation so he decided to go with the America West pilots due to the USAir pilots not budging from straight DOH. There will always be winners and losers in mergers. IMHO, anytime two carriers with similar pay scales and aircraft merge (USAir/America West, Delta/Northwest), DOH should be the standard. It might not be fair, but at least there would be a standard.