I don't think its that.

The word I would use is "co-mingling".

That's what happened in 2010. The resources of each legacy started to become "co-mingled" at that time.

At that point, we should have had a single seniority list. But we didn't. It took three years, and during that time, the company made a decision to alter flying in a way that drastically and unproportionally shifted new flying to one side.

That gave a false sense of "seniority" and "growth" from 2010-2013. The arbitrators validated that.

Despite your beliefs, if someone is quoting their "2013 CAL list" position, relative percentage, or "what they could hold" its all a moot point. Lots of senior LCAL guys didn't take those upgrades, because they wanted to wait to see what was going to happen with SLI. 2006 hires getting guppy Captain positions in LAX, ORD, and DEN would have never happened with an integrated seniority list, and would have never happened without the merger. The pilots leaving EWR and IAH to take those new positions out west created what appeared to be growth in those bases, but it wasn't. Just backfilling of slots that wouldn't have been vacated without the merger.

I don't really know who the merger benefitted more, and I don't really care. I personally have no desire to ever be based in IAH, CLE, EWR, or GUM since each is over 1,000 miles from where I live. My base has had about 400 new pilots that weren't here previously come into it. All I care about is my base, and while others have had tremendous new opportunity here, I have not.

Once the assets because co-mingled, even though we had separate seniority lists, we should have shared in the benefits of the merger, but we didn't. Management made the decision to shift flying this way, and look at the mess they left for us to clean up.

The SLI just cleaned that up as best possible.

Anyway, that's my rant. Enjoy your day.