Originally Posted by trvlr64
The fences will stand for more than 1.5 years too. By the time that its time for those fences to come down there may not be any "old" US F/A's to worry about anyway.
there's no disputing that there will be fences, and no, no one wants to move for the most part. but the fact remains that HP f/a's are getting a very raw deal that is only a little better than the rawest possible "staple to the bottom of the list" deal that TW f/a's got. it's particularly galling because it's the HP f/a's who are in the acquiring camp.
the question is what happens when there are downsizings? and there will be, even if times don't ever go bad after the merger-- the publicly announced target workforce size is ca 35,000 post-merger. HP staff get canned from the west, and US staff get involuntary transfers westwards, just as TW's "fenced" STL base is now staffed solely with involuntarily transferred AA f/a's.