As an outsider, I have a question:

At my airline, my QOL is dependent on my seniority percentage in my seat. So if I want to avoid reserve, I better be in the top 70% or so. Weekends off? Maybe top 30%. My actual seniority number is completely irrelevant to this.

So with this in mind, I don't understand why a straight relative integration is such a windfall for VX. Everyone's percentage stays exactly the same, for both VX and AS pilots. If you had weekends off before, you still have them off. I completely understand that it feels unfair for some young kid at his young airline to get slotted next to an old timer at the old airline, but from a QOL standpoint, what actually changes for the old timer? Is the argument just purely emotional?

If you use the integration method I'm hearing from the AS guys here, you're gonna have a lot of captains at VX used to specific QOL, such as weekends and holidays off, and you're gonna make them all junior again. Their QOL will be destroyed.

So one method affects nobody's QOL, while another destroys a large segment of VX pilots' QOL. How is *that* fair?

EDIT: I promise I'm not trying to start any crap - I'm just curious about what I'm missing!