If it had gone DOH, I for one would have advocated conditions and restrictions that would have guaranteed the West a percentage of upgrades in each bid based off their attrition and new flying, fencing of respective bases for upgrades, no bump no flush protections, and down turn protections requiring a inverse percentages for downgrades as well as no furlough protections if there was a RIF within 5 years of the merger.
Percentage of upgrades?
would that mean that one out of every three upgrades would go to the west? Or would it mean the east gets almost all of them since they have the most retirements?
Fencing of bases?
Why would you want that? Why would the company agree to that? What a management nightmare.
Although all knowing (but never right) USA320 thinks everybody wants to bid to LGA or Sh1tsburg, here's a news flash. THEY DON'T. There's a reason people retire to Arizona... Now Charlotte is another story...a place on Norman, Wateree or Murray....
No Bump, No flush and furlough protection?
I got furlough protection...about 1.5 years before I got furloughed :down:
No Bump, No flush is a fancy way of Saying the AWA guys get to be permenent reserves. Nothing like no upward movement. Now about the "furlough protection". I take that to mean you would furlough a "more senior" U guy who just got back from furlough before you canned a "senior" AWA F/O who got hired in 2003. Hmmm. For only five years though, huh? Now let me think about this....this is comming from a group that thinks that they can rewrite an Arbitration Award by changing unions and declaring a "do-over"...Are you goign to tell me that this same group of moral men would hesitate to attempt a "do-over" if there was a RIF in 2 years? Right... I can hear it now. "Bob only has 5 mores years to retirement, he's got to support his three ex-wives, Johnny from the west is only 45 years old....lets change the rules (again)...Johnny has time to make up his loses after Bob retires...it's only fair, Bobs 'more senior'..."
I don't think any "offer" from the east could be considered without a great deal of caution and mistrust. It's ironic though, you fall just short of saying that you would essentially give the West the benefits Nic's award gave them. The only differance (if the east was to be trusted) is that the protection would expire in 5 years. Let me guess, you have more than five years to go... In any case, why don't we give you a certificate that awards you an "honorary DOH seniority number" You could hang it in the den and still bid and fly based on the Nic decision. You could call it a "moral victory". Heck, they could even let all the east guys have four stripes and a Captains hat!!
