You all miss what really goes on in a merge of lists. It is more than just position it also includes freezes and fences.
A pilot I know was hired at Western in the 70s and just had the fence come down on their merge with DAL way back before most of you moved your first throttle.
This ISl is big and the fact is the more 60% pilots at CAL get their cap bids the harder it is for pilots like air hoss to do the same post ISL.