Nicolau Arbitration Award - Leonidas

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consideration as an offsetting benefit to America West pilots is the US
Airways attrition, whether swift or slower, that will accrue to the
America West pilots in a measure that did not previously exist.
Though America West pilots can therefore expect some gain
from factors US Airways brought to the merger, this by no means
justifies the proposal on which US Airways insists. As previously
stated, giving sole consideration to date of hire and length of service
would put the senior America West pilot some 900 to 1100 numbers
down the combined list. US Airways proposed restrictions, both as to
aircraft and length, would unduly deprive too many senior America
West pilots of upgrade opportunities for too long a time, and would
also put a number of active America West pilots below long-furloughed
US Airways pilots who, until the merger, had little prospect of an early
return.
In our view, these competing considerations result in a list that
has the effect of reserving a certain number of positions in present
wide-body international aircraft to US Airways pilots, thus giving
consideration to both their longer service and the fact that America
West pilots did not have an immediate expectation of such flying,
However, the placement of a number of US Airways pilots on the top of
the list as a means of accomplishing that is not the 900 to 1100 they
seek, but 423, which is equal to number of Captains and First Officers
flying the A330 and B767 International. This would give those senior