Originally Posted by
Brakes Set
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.
Look at this way.
You are the youngest and most junior pilot at airline X. Airline X has 100 pilots and you are number 100 on the list. In 10 years everyone ahead of you on the list will reach mandatory retirement age and you will reach number one on the list due to mandatory retirements.
Now imagine airline X acquires airline Y which also has 100 pilots and each of those pilots are younger than than the pilots at airline X. Both lists are combined using relative seniority. Now you are number 200 on the combined list and at the exact same place in relative seniority.
10 years go by and every one of the pilots originally on airline X's seniority list has retired, without the addition of airline Y's pilots you would be number one on the list. But, since all of airline Y's pilots were younger, not all of them have retired and you are not number one on the list. You have lost seniority even though the pilots of airline Y were added at relative seniority.