Originally Posted by
Capsicum
So why would I tolerate some other guy with similar total flight time popping in just ahead of me in seniority? Partly because I'm not a petty childish douchebag .
There is half the problem right there. Boomers and pilots are each, more often then not, petty and childish. Who flies the bigger planes, makes more money, has more time off. Cod swinging. I feel like you are either not an airline pilot or are so new you havent figured it out yet.
Airline unions run the majority by boomers, would sell their own junior pilots jobs for an extra $1 an hour, if they thought they could win the vote. Companies like American still have strife, from the TWA merger in the early 90s. They have like 4-5 distinct 'legacy' groups within that company alone.
A significant chunk of all merger issues are which process to use in integrating the seniority lists. Seniority is everything to a pilot. Literally.