Originally Posted by luv757

That was a unique situation and the “rules” were well established. Short version was the CAL side was hiring. Had the SLI already been completed the positions would have simply been filled via the normal recall of the furlughed UAL pilots and a normal vacancy bid. However since the SLI was ongoing that wasn’t possible. So it was decided to extend an offer for furloughed UAL pilots to fill the “new hire” positions on the CAL side. The deal was even though they were at the bottom of the CAL list, they would be integrated from the UAL list (essentially they weren’t forced to resign their UAL seniority). So in this unique situation, yes some pilots did end up going from being junior to some pilots to being senior to them. As it is they went from being junior to and then senior to all the post merger “constructive notice” hires. Rule 1 that I stated a few posts ago still applied and was applied. Any pilot that any furloughee was junior to on the pre merger UAL list or senior to was still junior or senior as applicable. Just now they had been integrated with pilots from pre merger CAL. It was all above board and everyone knew the deal.