Originally Posted by
shoelu
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.
I am looking at it from a different way. If my airline has 10000 pilots. We buy an airline with 2000 pilots. Their 1 guy goes at 2. Did that effect the number 2 guy at my airline - yes. On the list. I barely understand your statement about age (my fault because of my age probably).
If you put up a graph and then put the information about them where they are with seniority percentage. Then put in the same info with another group - Relative seniority. Look at the gain or loss line - It is flat. If you did DOH it would move up and down with Relative Seniority gain/loss because of hiring burst at each airline being different per year.