BS. Seniority at a carrier is not static or a snapshot but is dynamic. The attrition, captain vacancies, advancement in seats, wide body flying in their system belongs to the US Airways pilots active and furloughed alike a hell of a lot more than any AWA pilot. They brought those jobs to the merger, they earned them and sacrificed for them and when their is a vacancy or a chance to advance from anything they brough to the merger, the payoff should be theirs. I am guessing by your picture, you are UAL. If you had merger with someone in 1980, should your 14 year FE's have been placed behind every FO at the merging carrier. Should someone else have been gifted the sacrifice of those guys who sat sideways for 14 years and enjoyed the benefit of the Captain positions or wide body and international flying ahead of them. Hell, no and you would have been screaming bloody murder. UAL supported prefence to DOH in the merger policy in 1986 because of those issues, and then backtracked on it 1991 because you went from an older pilot group to a younger one. Never a though given to the future, only the here and now and if I can take it, I will have it mentality. That is the problem with ALPA, they don't stand behind in universal principles or algorithms, only what the political muscles sees beneficial to them at the time. ALPA has a scab mentality and we can all see where that has led this profession. I hope for one, the US Airways guys win this, and if they don't I wouldn't blame a one of them for ever scabbing their carrier or any ALPA carrier, even my own. If we are going to live in a profession that is only about what you can leverage in the moment, then by god, when it is dog eat dog, there better not be a single person squalling about how it got like this or when someone who has leverage steals their ox.