Originally Posted by Bluedriver

All true. What someone in your position will fail to consider, or care about, is what someone on the other side loses for you to keep 100% relative seniority. Not criticizing you, it's just pilot-narure. Someone with several more years of seniority, who WOULD have much better future seniority progression, would have hundreds or possibly 1,000+ guys with fewer years and an average age younger than them placed ahead of them. So while you would lose nothing with full relative, guys on the other side would lose most of their FUTURE seniority progression. You know how important that is as you have already looked ahead at your future seniority progression and very much look forward to it.

With such a diametrically opposed seniority/age profile between the two companies, there is no perfect answer. All (virtually all) will have to compromise and give up some of their current or future seniority. It's gonna sting for most of us a little, but ultimately won't be a windfall or catastrophe.