[quote=Anodyne;2978567]A number of protagonists on this thread seem to assume that it’s ultimately up to the pilots to decide how the seniority lists are combined, actually it’s the management's final decision.
True Anodyne, it is, it just helps them get around some potentially difficult legal situations if they have TU working with them to produce a Collective Agreement. That way, they are not entirely responsible if someone takes exception to the way in which crew have been ordered. There are all sorts of other laws which come into play and which might trip them up if the company were to integrate the lists unilateraly.
Equal pay for instance.
A company would be very unwise to unwise to merge staff in any way other than continuous service doj or something similar. Likewise, a union would be foolish to suggest anything much different from this however, a Collective Agrement for a simple workable compromise would be acceptable.
This is of course before someone challenges the whole concept of seniority.
Do flybe have much in the way of P+P policies or a comittee to oversee this?