Maybe. Then we can add back in the status and category of another 700 narrowbody Captains, and remove all the "furloughed" status and category pilots.

But the UAL side didn't try to make that stretch. They brought it up as reference. I'd be SHOCKED to see the arbitrators not mention that in their decision.

Actually, in NWA/DAL the statement "mergers do not happen in a vacuum" was used to explain why Katz proposal wasn't valid compared to Freund, who won that integration.