Don't tell me to go read anything. I just read it,again, yesterday. I know what he did, but that is not slotting by equipment at the top. His method of "protecting" the widebodies in reality just gave some east AB and 737 captains super seniority over what the more junior AB and 737 captains got. IMHO it was a screwed up way of protecting widebody flying that hurt west senior pilots.
The top 517 are in DOH order from the east. The rest are slotted, until you get to the "furloughed", and as it turns out many of the weren't actually furloughed, and they were stapled. As it turns out, they actually were mainline positions, even if they were not originally intended to be. How about Republic and Frontier? Were only the "mainline" EMB pilots the ones on the top?
Are those top 517 reserved for life? Will you make it to one?
Maybe you should read page 26 of the award, where Nic talks about DOH.
This started from what Jim said to me, it was not intended to be a rehash of the Nic.
You wrote are the 517 reserved for life. It is only as to those guys....as they retire the
Westies actually will be able to use the super seniority that NIC gave them to move into those slots.
You can get to the 517 but if nic were used you would stagnate forever as the
Westies came east and came in on top....so making it into the 517 means nothing really (if NIC is used)
does that make sense?? I know I am stating the obvious.
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