Thanks Dash,
No, MAC was not union. Likewise, a feeder pilot was about the last one to get hired by Fedex.

I think you and I are, not intentionally of course, talking at cross purposes. Wouldn't experience matter if for instance the higher seniority person does not have the required 121 experience and the guy behind him does. A captain bid goes out reaching to the depth of their seniority numbers. The former would not be qualified if he doesn't have his ATP and/or 1000 121 hours. Correct?

That situation may not be happening right now, but as someone else pointed out, it might as you bring on the jets requiring 10 new crew members (more or less) per plane.

Nonetheless, PDT sounds like a decent (as regionals go) place to work. I have two new questions:
1. Realistically, what can you get as take home pay considering salary, per diem, and maybe one or two extra trips per month?
2. Can you use travel benefits to go overseas, for instance to Ireland.

Thanks.