{"id":7325,"date":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"pilot-seniority-dispute-jeopardizes-nwa-delta-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/pilot-seniority-dispute-jeopardizes-nwa-delta-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"Pilot seniority dispute jeopardizes NWA, Delta merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Star Tribune- On hold for nearly a month, the merger deal between Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines is in danger of being called off. <\/p>\n<p>Lee Moak, the Delta pilots union chairman, disclosed Monday that the two airlines&#8217; pilot groups cannot agree on a list that would define seniority rankings in a merger. <\/p>\n<p>A seniority agreement would determine which planes pilots fly and how much pilots would earn over the course of their careers. <\/p>\n<p>The news, revealed in a letter from Moak to Delta pilots, means the companies will either have to cancel the merger deal &#8212; at least for now &#8212; or proceed with it despite the prospect of a potentially crippling feud within the pilot ranks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/business\/16770486.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis Star Tribune- On hold for nearly a month, the merger deal between Northwest Airlines and Delta Air Lines is in danger of being called off. Lee Moak, the Delta pilots union chairman, disclosed Monday that the two airlines&#8217; pilot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}