Nope. He was 99 hire and actively flying and not furloughed. I was active 07 hire. We merged in 2010. The problem was we were roughly the same relative percentage on the active list, so our "status and category" was the same (narrowbody FO). Seniority isn't date of hire, its your relative seniority in the group. The arbitrators apparently didn't think his extra 8 years meant very much and instead our relative seniority more important. I understand where you guys are coming from, because the United pilots argued the same thing. Good luck to both sides. Wouldn't want to go through it again.