PI,
1 They didn't have a Job to Merge, Not a foreign concept.
2 They held the status of being Furloughed from flying ANY similar type A/C AWA had (ie AAA's Mainline Jets). NO ONE seems to want to address this.
3 The Arbitrator heard all this at the Hearings in Jan-Feb 2007 and decided that everyone Furloughed (MDA or not) were of the same status and could not fly AAA's Mainline Jets until a RECALL occurred, should be place below Dave Odell. After all AWA Merged with AAA not MDA.
4 If not Furloughed, they were flying a catagory of A/C smaller and for less pay than any A/C that AWA had. All the Ratios were based on what type A/C your were flying.
The other thing, How do you justify placing a Furloughed AAA pilot not working for MDA or maybe not working for anyone. Ahead of someone who had a Job to bring to this Merger. Which seems exactly what many MDA guys want. The Arbitrator couldn't see this as fair then, why would he now.
Black Swan has been asked most all of these questions but Fails to ever answer them. Only belaboring the fact of being on the same Certificate. Don't look now, we are all on the same Certificate.
Flip
For anything that had to do with furloughed, I SAID IF. What's so hard about this part? You guys are saying furloughed or not it makes no difference, I'm asking why.
For the rest. It doesn't matter, it's not up to us, but were we slotted by pay? Our 75 pay more than anything you have. Your other rates are higher than the rest of our fleet. Really what does the size of the airplane have to do with it? It might have, but should it? As I said, the top MDA capt. had a much higher pay and quality of life style than indoc. Dave, so why should his position, if they hadn't been furloughed, be rated more worthy than the top MDA capt.? If the E170 had been a bid choice for him don't you think he would have traded bottom of the list F/O for top E170 capt.?