Originally Posted by
Packrat
True. However, the whole reason for the change was to keep USAir pilots out of UAL widebody seats. Up until that point DoH was the gold standard. After that more than a few mergers saw one or the other pilot group getting hosed.
You might want to check on the Pan Am/ National merger (1979). In the book "Skygods", Robert Gandt chronicles how arbitrator favored "career expectations" in that merger. Many Pan Am pilots felt hosed, seeing themselves hundreds of numbers lower in seniority than they expected. There were some National Captains that had later DOH than many Pan Am SO's.