This is exactly why you slot the 9 year VX Captains with the 9 year AS Captains and ratio the list down from there. But I'm pretty sure you're gonna have VX guys make the argument, "My career expectation was to be the #1 Captain on my SLI, so I should go to the top of the AS list."

Sorry, but that's not even close to what ALPA defines as "career expectations." Career expectations means the expectation of holding a wide body position PERIOD. Since neither of these two airlines have wide bodies, the whole career expectations argument is a moot point. You cannot extrapolate the term to mean something YOU think it is....retirement position, seniority number, non-rev status, etc. It means one thing and one thing only: When you got hired did your airline have wide bodies on the property?