Originally Posted by gloopy

First reserve a reasonable number of retirements (500-1000 at least) and staple to top, then pull and plug the equivalent wide body captains, staple to top, integrate narrow body captain equivalent positions with a fair ratio, then wide body FO equivalent positions in a fair ratio, then narrow body FO positions in a fair ratio.

Even with LPB, the larger equipment still would influence the pay expectations. Large planes would still bring more wages to the table, its just that (if we elected to go with LBP) that would have been spread around our entire pre merged group. There is no logical reason to punish that in the slightest.

Again, I'm not in favor of LBP and I don't see it happening for numerous reasons. But if it did, it wouldn't hurt us in a merger situation.