I guess they omitted the "DOH or else" petitions, the threats of recalling the MC members and MEC resolution...
Jim
Jim,
I have talked with you since PI days.
I cannot believe that you are so shallow as that. You know that every merger has a basis, "slotting", "DOH", whatever and then there are C&Rs (conditions and restrictions) to alleviate any outlier placements.
The DOH basis always presents an easier basis upon which to base conditions and restrictions, it negatively affects less pilots that way meaning less complicated C&Rs. Proved time and again. Bob Kirsch, lonely east proponent of slotting, even agrees with me on that. Why complicate the issue to the point of unsuitability? Make it simple so that mergers down the road will have the weight of historical precedence. Some west dudes think this is needless citing changing sides as the situation presents itself (ATA potential merger). Unfortunately, you and I saw how Kegel handled the contradiction of PI's request for slotting vs how they treated Empire. The arbitrator offered PI a chance to resolve the contradiction and PI refused. I can only feel that any future mergers will be shaped by what we do today and a future merger ten years from now with a company with a, say, two year history will encounter the same problems.
DOH, in the case of east and west, with conditions and restrictions, protects the west dudes most of all, especially down the road. Like I tell my friends on the west side, had you taken DOH, you would now be bidding into wide body aircraft. Instead, now, you might work a wide body ten years from now. Control your greed for five years or suffer for fifteen years. I don't know, kinda seems kinda easy to me.