TWA Dude
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Your version of relative seniority puts many furloughees senior to current AWA captains and staples the bottom several hundred AWA pilots. The result of that would be 100% stagnation for the AWA pilots until hundreds of USAir guys regain the seats they lost during their two bankuptcies. That's called a windfall at the other's expense.none. I'm definately not a smart man, but it seems like relative seniority for all pilots ON the list would probably be about as far as it could get.
What is "seniority"? Is it defined by how long you've been at a company or by how many pilots are senior/junior to you? One might say that a USAir '86 is very senior but unfortunately he wasn't senior enough to avoid being furloughed! You're looking at one piece of the equation (DOH) and ignoring the rest (how much seniority one has). In 2005 the most junior USAir pilot was a 1986 hire. How much seniority did he have? Zero, since every flying USAir pilot was senior to him. That's the seniority that Nicolau entitled him to keep in the integration.You can't put 05 hires ahead of 89 hires and even come close to calling it fair.
I've you'd like to read Nicolau's decision yourself and have no other access feel free to PM me and I zap it to you. It's a 5MB, 76 page PDF.