I know what you are saying about the early retirements. I misspoke. I understand they were leaving to get the lump sum. I understand most of your pilots are upset about the way that all panned out but the fact of the matter is that ANY pilot hired after 2007 has absolutely no right to be senior to a pilot who was hired prior to 9/11. Both companies went into BK on the same day!
...Agreed, but I wouldn't say "absolutely no right"...more like "shouldn't be". Afterall, it was your MEC who went for the GRAND SLAM HOME RUN in the form of across-the-board DOH, knowing that the worst they could possibly get was a relative position merge. Did it ever occur to you that the arbitrators had to choose between the lesser of two evils...and that DOH with 10 year fences would have been a complete, and utter disaster, not only for the DAL pilots (example: typical of 85/86 hired pilots, I would have gone from +-650 (combined) to +-3100! -yeah, from 777 capt. to A320 capt!) but for NWA also...albeit in the form of a totally seperate, animosity-filled group of pilots for at least 10 years...animosity to the extent that it would make your disgruntlement with the present situation (or the red-green book battles) look like a Sunday school picnic by comparison. Perhaps your MEC could have accepted relative seniority as fair in principle, and negotiated the extreme DOH seniority inversions that say, specifically involve furlough demographics like yours, (and the DAL late 91/92 hires, who also were on furlough when NWA had new-hires in 95). Your MEC gambled big-time with your seniority, they had nothing to lose (or maybe they did, given your situation) Three unbiased experts...specialists in seniority list mergers -picked the way-lesser of two evils....get mad at them for being rational and doing their jobs, not the DAL pilots...the arbitrators are the ones, specifically, who put you in this position....
