Most of the reasonable posts I've read aren't angry about where the furloughs were placed, but where the junior East FOs were positioned.
I agree...see my original post on this thread:
First of all, I want to say that my fellow pilots I work with here on the "east" side are good people--and except for a few rare exceptions, not any different than any pilot I've ever associated with both in and out of the military.
As an unwilling participant myself through at least 4 mergers in my over 19 years with the airline...I hate to see the inevitable stereotypes being bandied around. I really hope now, that like past mergers, with time, they will diminish...if not go away.
Now, I want to say this very clearly:
Speaking from PRIOR MERGER EXPERIENCE: There will always be griping about an arbitrated seniority list. The problem with this arbitration is NOT with the idea of slotting--or even the so-called "relative seniority". The real problem is that the East's attrition--was not taken in to account in the award. It could have been taken care of either by fences (the simplest way), or by a different slotting for the ones impacted most--the lower third of the east's list.
If this one issue would've been addressed properly by the arbitrator, this would've been accepted pretty much like most other of our past arbitrations...with typical grumbling acceptance.
DB
With that, I'm going to try my best to step away from (and stay off this and related threads) and go luv my domestic goddess. I hope the best for ALL of us here at the new USAirways. Back to lurking....