Pre-merger I could hold Airbus Captain. Actually, I either flew as or had bid awards as a narrowbody Captain (guppy, 727, and Airbus) at United since 1999. (That's 11 years) I was about 54% on the list in 2010.

Also, the relative percentage is not comparable because the fleets were not relatively the same. One fleet had 72 widebody airplanes, the other 22. One fleet had 275 guppies. The other had 150 Airbus. So lots of slots for UAL at the top for widebody Captains, and lots of little narrowbody FO slots that had to be put at the bottom of each list and pilots put into those slots.

So I certainly didn't expect to stay the same in relative percentage. I expected to go up.

I'm sure if you had merged with jet Blue you'd have wanted the same thing because they have no widebody airplanes.

Additionally, I have longevity, and it was more than the relative percentage of the person I was paired with.

Also, I retire at exactly the same place relatively, and move up relatively the same as well. No difference in the charts for me really.

So having a "status and category" advantage because of airplane mix, PLUS a longevity advantage, these both gave me a 2% increase in my relative seniority. Big Deal.

Sunvox basically predicted where we would end up within about 200 numbers about 6 months ago. He almost nailed the formula, except he didn't include longevity, which moved us up from his analysis.