Ok Mr. Fish, let me get this straight- you are now against DOH and also against slotting SLI? Well, Einstein, what other options are there? And in a few posts above you lament your 27 years of service and how unfair it would've to have a person "cut" in front of you with fewer years AT A TOTALLY DIFFERENT AIRLINE.
And does Colonel-General Smiley Face know of your blasphemous anti-DOH stance?
Seriously, think before you post, you flip- flop more than a trout. At least the Colonel-General is consistent.
Mr. Fish? Okay, not sure about that one.
That's the problem with you pre. You are one of the westies with a very narrow view on these things. You think that if anyone doesn't see things exactly as you, they are zealots.
There are other options, but I'm not against anything. I think the process should look at where someone is on the list, and their probable progression with their current list and fleet and try to come up with a list that helps the most meet those targets. It could be DOH with conditions and restrictions, but with the disparity in our pilots groups I always thought that would be very difficult to do. When things are static it's easy, but airlines don't stay static for long. Slotting is the probable method with APA, but that can take many forms.
I don't have a problem with slotting, I just think Nicolau got it wrong. The way he slotted favored the senior east captains and junior west F/Os, them more so than the senior east captains. Be honest, have you ever actually looked at the shift of relative position from east to west on the Nic. I have, it's staggering and I've shown you where the arbitrator in the PA/NA SLI said he couldn't do it Nic's way because of that.
I have a problem with the Nicolau, not the west pilot group. I have friends over there, and just a few months ago was sharing drinks on a PHX layover with two of them and met a third really good guy. But if you turn it personal, I can give it back to you.
This is not a totally different airline. It's a blended airline. Both sides brought things to it, but I'm guessing that with the Nicolau you get much more than you brought. I don't know for sure, because you like to make assumptions about me, but I don't ever think you have shared your DOH or bid position. I think the Nicolau provided windfalls for certain parts of the seniority lists, but not all.
In our merger I actually liked the sound of a list the east committee up with. It was a slotted list, just slotted differently than the Nic. From what I was told, the ALPA lawyers were amazed at what it did. But, it placed some furloughed pilots ahead of Odell, the west's line in the sand, so it died on the vine.
