Originally Posted by BunkerF16

M&A have 2 elements. Category/Class and Relative seniority. With a UA merger, or with any of the big 3 for that matter, there would be a fencing off of aircraft based on career expectations (Widebodies), then there would be an argument about the larger narrow body aircraft (75s). Besides the cat/class, you're looking at relative seniority and the only real arguing point there is how much of a longevity multiplier to you give the legacy airline pilots based on YOS. Once that's decided, you plug and play. This is over simlified but that's the 30K' view.

Again, I think a merger with JB and a Big 3 would still work out for the JB guys better. Especially the younger JB pilots. I still don't like the thoughts of a SW merger just because of the unknown and how they took in AT. I don't really care what condition of AT was in at the time of the merger. It might work out, but I wouldn't want the unknown factor they present.