Originally Posted by
tennisguru
True, but where has there ever been a seniority list integration where every top pilot at one carrier had already been offered, in seniority order, a job at the better carrier? Getting hired off the street and then getting jumped in the integration isn't really an apples-to-apples comparison.
No arbitrator will ever care or consider any indivisual pilot who got hired off the street from a merged carrier. Their seniority at their new airline would be the ONLY consideration. They most certainly could be "seniority jumped" and end up junior to themselves. So to speak.