Originally Posted by Sunvox

Numbers don't lie when used correctly. Not that this matters, but just to "edumicate" everyone that wants to use this argument in the future.





Imagine 2 companies. Company A has 200 "acitve" pilots and 100 furloughed pilots and company B has 100 active pilots. Now imagine these companies are identical in every other way same planes, same career expectations, same longevity. Now imagine Ben Salley is number 50 at Company B so he is 50th percentile.

If you merge these two companies as CAL recommended (i.e. 1:1) then Ben ends up number 100 on the new list and next assume you don't count furloughed pilots then his new percentile is 100/300 or 33% versus his percentile at company B which was 50%.

If you merge these two companies based on a straight 2:1 ratio for active pilots then Ben Salley is number 150 or 50th percentile, the exact percentile he was at company B.

Now imagine that you mix the 100 furloughed pilots from company A in with the bottom 50 pilots at company A and the bottom 25 pilots at company B using a ratio of 150:25 A:B only for the last 25 numbers at company B. In this scenario Ben Salley still gets number 150 on the seniority list but his percentile changes to 150/400 or 37.5%

If you are not in the bottom part of the list where the furloughed pilots are being mixed you have not been impacted, but your percentile has changed dramatically.