Eagle, this is all my opinion, but you cannot be serious. For one, not using the Nic. is way more "unclean" by wide margin than using it. That is a simple undeniable fact. The Nic. places all 3rd lists below active pilots and furloughs at the awa/us merger date and accounts for all positions back in 2005. Don't use the Nic and now you have 3rd listers on both lists with disparate hire dates, you have west furloughed flying a330 east etc. a real mess.

Why you insist the Nic. hurts AA pilots I cannot understand, it would equivalent of me saying the MIA new hire widebody fo's are proof that widebody's are not premium flying. Think of it as PHX being a super senior base in the Usairways system because that is all the effect Nic. has, it's no different than that new hire 767 driver in MIA not being able to hold the same in dfw, your dfw based pilots still bring that mia seat to the table.