How do you figure that? If your seniority combined with your years left puts you in the seat of a wide body as a stand alone, combined under the proposal on the table you will still realize that. Your actual number may be lower than it would be stand alone but the pool of wide body seats will more than double. Every NW pilot who would retire as a stand alone will retire in a combined list. You will still move up a number for every one that does. In fact we all move up when either one of our respective geezers retires. (disclaimer, I'm a geezer in real life, not airline life).

I won't even get into the argument of our respective futures but suffice it to say we are better off if at the end of our times there are more bases and airplanes to fly than not which would surely be the case if we were alone. Simple equation more airplanes=more opportunities.

pop quiz: What would you rather fly: a 747 at $179/hr or a 767 at $186/hr? *rates from the current APC tables