I understand the F9 pilots frustration. It's been a very difficult five years for them.

In 2006 during former CEO Potter's reign he developed a grand plan for Frontier. His plan was to expand into mid-western cities with direct flights to Mexico, experiment with point to point California flying and announced the the start up of a new airline (Lynx) owned by Frontier that would operate turboprops to support their Denver hub. Also, in what turned out to be his biggest blunder, he signed a long term contract with Republic to replace Horizon in providing regional jet lift.

It sounded good on paper but Potter began his plan during what now is viewed as the deepest downturn in the national economy since the great depression.

As Wall Street was imploding and the real estate market was tanking Potter squandered millions of dollars of Frontier's assets. He was flying half full (or less) Airbus, paying pilots, mechanics, ground support, outstation personnel while waiting for the FAA to issue an operating certificate to Lynx and then had to hire Express Jet to fulfill Lynx commitments. He had also hammered out a horrible deal from Frontier's perspective with Republic exposing his naivete or unsophistication as a CEO of an airline.

So when all that ultimately led to Potter resigning it was only a matter of a few months after his departure that his successor Menke was forced to file for bankruptcy.

Once Frontier filed bankruptcy the fate of the F9 pilots became bleak.

There is inherent risk in the airline industry when you move to a new company as most of the F9 pilots did. F9 pilots came from regional airlines, charter airlines, the military and every other possible way to work for Frontier. Frontier was a mid sized major airline with one hub and a history of bankruptcy in it's first incarnation. Going to work for Frontier was a calculated risk all the F9 pilots made and unfortunately that risk reared it's ugly head under the direction of Jeff Potter!

During the binding SLI arbitration Eischen decided what was fair and equitable between the four pilot groups. The F9 pilots career expectations had been so diminished by Potter's blunders which had landed Frontier in bankruptcy that he blended the F9 captains with RAH captains in tier 1 and the remaining F9 pilots with MEA and RAH pilots in tier 2.

Native RAH pilots didn't steal F9 pilot seniority. Eischen determined that blending F9, RAH and MEA pilots was "fair and equitable" based on the equities each pilot group brought to the combined airline.

RAH pilots didn't steal F9 pilots seniority. Potter squandered F9 pilot seniority.