Originally Posted by eaglefly

Interesting article. Of course, traditionally furlougees are usually (but not always) grouped at the bottom of merged lists, but in our situation we have furloughees spread out at status quo date due to deferral. It's just one of the many complexities that face this SLI, notably that since respective seniority lists here will maintain their pre-merger relative seniority (which ALPA stipulated that in the UAL-CAL SLI) after integration and so how do you potentially negatively impact pilot X when dovetails him into another pilot group at point Y without dragging all those presently junior to him down as well who may not have as much jeopardy on that issue (returned sooner, thus more longevity) ?

I would hope this is one area (given our complexities and clearly past East position) is that the "longevity" factor be minimized (or possibly eliminated) by agreement. It would SEEM that to be the case as both APA/USAPA agreed that in their joint JCBA proposal to AAG regarding the definition of "AA. Occupational date" and its establishment as the determining placement on the seniority list.