PB: You wouldn't have a link to the arbitration award? I'd be interested in reading it, just so I don't have to talk out my a**. As I said, I've watched/participated in and been appalled by the stupidity of the industry for 40 years. I grew up around airline pilots, who never struck me as happy campers. If the award was based on merging individuals to the approximate equal relative positions from the old list to the new list, it should be equitable. EXCEPT, the relative ages will cause the older group to never "get over it", there claim will be "I didn't have the years to get promoted/make captain, etc." The one problem with ALPA is it is run by long-term officers who are more interested in politics than the industry. As an ex-EAL guy, I never could understand how Babbitt got to be president when his airline was gone! Jack Bavis was great guy personally, but did he ever fly the line? Hell, Randy Babbitt was a A300 F/O.
AWA must be a "younger" group, because every pilot at AL is old, hell, their junior guy must be over 45.
GF