Who said we "liked" the award? The number 1 AWA pilot (now retired) was placed permanently behind the top 517. Every AWA pilot lost some percentage of his/her relative seniority. The AWA pilot group originally thought that since the AAA pilot group was demanding DOH, that we should in turn demand a staple job. We then decided to take a more reasonable tact: Relative seniority. The Arbitrator thought that was a great start, and warned the AAA MC that DOH would NOT be delivered under an arbitration.
We simply looked at the delivered seniority list and said "Well, I agreed to the process as being a member of the union. So be it. Let's move on to get a contract that we can all live with."
Seejay, I get that the junior AAA pilots think that the Nicolau senority list is "unfair". All attempts (and then some) were employed to make sure that there was a way to revisit the list's tenets. The list was then delivered to the CEO of the company, and the company repaid both ALPA MEC's the funds promised to cover the process.
The biggest problem that I have with where we are is this: The AWA pilot group is being forced to help fund (via dues) the DOH chase. If the AAA pilots wanted to challenge this fairly they should have fired up some sort of assessment like the PIC. That would have at least shown some integrity.
Regards,
CB