Originally Posted by svergin

It's not fair. It's just Union policy. The UAL pilot one number behind me on our seniority list was hired 7+ years before me. Why? Because it ended up mostly relative seniority despite the large number of "jumbo" aircraft UAL had. I dropped about 3 percent from where I was pre-merger to the combined list. You can see Union policy is built to maintain relative percentage over longevity.

If you're banking on the "we are a superior airline and they all get raises, etc" tell that to my friends at SWA hired when I was hired at CAL who are still FOs and now telling me that 5 years have been tacked onto their upgrade because of all the AT pilots placed ahead of them on the list. No question SWA had a better contract than AT by far.

Good luck fellow ALPA pilots.