A friend of mine just pointed out that my above post was wrong. He says that 9E cannot bid Saab captain even if the numbers are above the fenced positions. I did not know this so I looked it up.
For a period of five years beginning with the submission of the Integrated Seniority List, no Pinnacle pilot may be awarded or displaced to a Saab-340 captain position, and no pre-merger Colgan pilot may be awarded or displaced to a Saab-340 captain position unless Mesaba pilots maintain 129 Saab-340 captains.
If you use the logic that 9E doesn't have Saabs, then why is the Q400 written like this:
For a period of five years beginning with submission of the integrated seniority list, no pre-merger Pinnacle or Mesaba pilots may be awarded or displaced to a Q-400 captain unless Colgan pilots maintain 193 Q-400 captain positions.
Bloch is a dumbass.