Originally Posted by
vroll1800
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.
The point is "career expectations" replaced DoH in the official ALPA Merger/Fragmentation Policy, not that it had never been used before.