So, you're saying a fence wouldn't be needed to prevent a West F/O at the 40 percentile rank on the Nic list who should he end up technically senior to a senior legacy AA F/O on the pre-merger list to outbid him to a Group IV (777,787) F/O slot or Group II captains position on legacy AA equipment ?

What true expectations did that West F/O have of flying such equipment based on opportunities that for whatever reason (right or wrong) never materialized ?

Just as importantly (and this would apply to East pilots as well), since present and anticipated compensation at pre-merger is a quantifiable factor in considering the weight and value of pre-merger career expectations, how much was that West F/O making prior to the merge and what was his equipment and pay increase expectations relative to that same senior AA legacy F/O ?

Should an $85/hour (or whatever the senior West F/O pay was pre-merger) job in PHX equate or even outweigh a $130/hour job in MIA ?

To balance out the inequities that the Nic may give West pilots, especially in relation to AA pilots, serious fences would be needed to maintain career expectations. I'd be surprised if the arbitrators give the same weight to a 40% Nic pilot who was flying as a narrowbody F/O in PHX with that of a 40% AA pilot who might even be holding a $180/hour captains position, let alone that $130/hour AA F/O, but in order to place such pilot below AA F/O X above and eliminate a fence, he'd have to place all the East captains junior to him as well (to say nothing of all the East F/O's).

I suppose anything's possible, I just don't see that. I see a hybrid that bears little resemblance to the Nic.