Fairly certain, though it has been some time since I checked, that a mainline flowback pilot would give up their NWA seniority number if they choose to accept a flowback position at Compass.

I don't see 12-14 spots at Mesaba being much of an issue (save for the unfortunate 12-14 FOs that are right on the line with whatever Mesaba's eventual furlough may look like.).

Anybody have opinions on management's end game as to why the Compass flowback is structured the way it is? Save the obvious of decreasing the mainline's labor costs by shoving well paid DC-9 pilots out the door into a lower paid 76 seater. What is management's power play? Perhaps, "You can keep your seniority, but you need to let us have more 76 seaters?" Opinions on how it will play out once the Compass planes are full of mainliners?