nope, he is just rectifying the common misconception that your individual seat in a merger will have anything to do with your final position. If you are lucky it will be a rebid for everyone after the list is integrated. If you were AT you could bid 717 (declining fleet) ATL, or SWA FO, no matter your position on the integrated list. Know a guy who would have been very senior as a captain in BWI but ended up flying as an FO because not legacy SWA. Don’t think he ever complained, and I have no bones in this, but do not think your seat means anything to the company acquiring you.

and I mostly disagree with him