Originally Posted by
Hacker15e
Pretty sure that it means that the seniority list of the purchased company gets "stapled" to the BOTTOM of the seniority list of the buying company...meaning that the most senior captain at the acquired airline is placed below the lowest captain at the buyer company.
That isn`t what "staple method" means. The purchased company`s seniority list gets stapled to the bottom of the buying air line`s list. The senior captain on the purchased air line`s list is below the junior copilot on the buying air line`s list. Sounds fair.