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Brakes Set
2. Relative does not effect anyone. Well, ok. If your number 1 at SWA and number 1 at AAI. there can only be 1 number 1. So the AAI pilot is now number 2. If your used to bidding so many lines - you will still be bidding so many lines. It is all relative. Each has a number of pilots for each airplane. The manning was very close to each other. Instead of 10 A/C and 20 pilots you would have had 20 A/C and 40 pilots. No change for the pilots. Yes, SWA had however many A/C vs. AAI but the manning was extremely close. DOH could have been pushed onto the AAI guys probably with a good argument. A guy hired in 96 ( A Captain) put with a SWA pilot hired in 96 (most likely a Captain). Same on up.
Over and over you keep showing that you have very little understanding of this SLI. Relative does not effect anyone? You can't be this naive.
The ONLY way relative seniority integration has no effect on anyone is if the two pilot groups are exactly identical in age which of course is impossible.
If a pilot has 100 above him on the seniority list and you insert another 100 with exactly the same mandatory retirement dates, then no harm no foul, you end up exactly where you started. If you place 100 younger pilots ahead of you then each and every day those pilots remain on the seniority list above you because they are younger, in some cases by decades, you lose seniority due to the pilots above you not retiring.