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....If we had known how our seniority would be based back when I was hired I wouldn't have bid for such a long break in training, either. I understand fair is fair, however, and it's not right that I would get placed in front of a LAA hired prior to me, look at it from both points of view.
I guess one could also say that if the LAA Letter T pilots had known that exercising their contractual right to defer return from furlough would be counted against them in this SLI, they would have had the appropriate info to base any decision on whether or not to defer return and might have elected to return ASAP. For that matter, I'd also guess that if the Eagle flows had known that the assurance that their AA seniority would in no way be impacted in the future by forced withholding from their assigned new-hire class might not be true, we wouldn't have agreed to Letter 3 and thus no flow-through under those provisions would exist.
Unfortunately, in the real world, revisionist history and subjective interpretation always seems to muddy up stagnant ponds that previously appeared clear.