I guess with your example US Airways bought America West, since the money was arranged as investment in them and AWA became a subsidiary of US Airways holdings.

Either way it doesn't matter because CEO's, Hedge Funds, and Banks made the deal happen. All us pylits do is drive airplanes and corporate deals and how they are constructed should have no bearing on the disposition of seniority. We fly airplanes, we don't do deals. A heavy equipment operator doesn't go out and buy anyone, the company does.

Our job is a trades skill and the trade good we produce or stamp out is an ASM. We don't get any more worked up to do our job, then a bulldozer operator or a train engineer does when he goes to work. We have a learned skill, but it is a blue collar one and all we do is move heavy machinery. The sad thing a bulldozer operator makes quite a bit more than a regional jet copilot, took less time and investment to learn how to operate the heavy machinery he works, is home every night with his family, and the work isn't nearly as hazardous duty. The reason he makes more is that he understands he is blue collar labor and doesn't try to take credit for something he had nothing to do with.

Just remember you r a pylit and u fly an aeroplane and if you understand that you might find there is more money to be had. Friday and Payday are the only things that matter, not the color of your uniform or the color of the paint on your aeroplane, that is, if you are putting your family first which is the only thing that matters in this life.