OK if you all want to fight over the what was meant by the words of the UAL CAL agreement you can. The ultimate facts are the two airlines "merged" their operations, the Corporation was renamed (and subsequently done again) and CAL Senior Management was initially in charge.

Tilton and his group did what they were hired to do, build up a huge cash reserve and find a dance partner in a consolidating industry. They did and the initial sad thing was Jeff S became the captain of the ship and he had no idea what he was doing.

You all need to get over who did what! It was a merger, the seniority list was arbitrated based on a merger and here we are 10 years later making money.

Gert over it!

Of course both United and Capital airlines pilots complained about the merger until the day all those involved retired or died.