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Lots of speculation. Old planes were retired because they were old. Same with why the 757's are being retired now. ?
Seniority lists should only ever be merged by date of hire. It is the only way that it can ever work. But to suggest that a 5yr Continental pilot was demanding to go above a 30+ year UA pilot (on furlough) is ludicrous. Not even just because a 30+ year pilot wouldn't be on furlough in the first place.
I agree with DOH, sadly CAL didn't as it hurt their argument. Why do you supposed that was? As I stated, the LCAL proposal was Capt to Capt, FO to FO, with all remaining (those were all LUAL pilots hired after 1996) stapled to the bottom of the list, after every new hire LCAL pilot hired in 2010. Not only that, but with the newest LCAL capt's coming in 2005, and the LUAL FO's flying wide bodies as FO's, you had 2005 LCAL pilots going higher up in the seniority list than a guy hired in the late 80's. Yes, ludicrous, I agree with you, which is why it was tossed out by the arbitrators.
Now a small band of LCAL pilots are upset and suing ALPA for LCAL's mistake in their argument, even though ALPA wasn't responsible for the seniority list, I guess more "common sense thinking" from these individuals. I still see 2010 hired CAL pilots complaining on our chat boards that they should be in front of our 1995 hires as they proposed. Amazing the gall from these guys. If we had gone by DOH, 3/4 of the LCAL pilot list would have been in the bottom half of the combined list, why they didn't want it.
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