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PILOT SENIORITY PLAGUES AIRLINE NORTHWEST'S PAST AND FUTURE MERGERS HAMPERED WITH COMPLEX PROBLEM.(BUSINESS)

Article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) Article date: February 21, 2008

Byline: HARRY R. WEBER Associated Press

ATLANTA -- Northwest Airlines Corp. pilots have integration problems to sort out. Not just the ones with their counterparts at Delta Air Lines that threaten to scuttle talks to combine the two carriers. The ones with Republic Airlines, from 1986.

An arbitrator is still sorting out seniority questions from that deal, illustrating just how much the point matters. Employees at the top of the list get first choice on vacations, the best routes and the bigger planes that they get paid more ...

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