[quote=Ferd149;495700]Xray,

Your comparing an international carrier with a regional RJ operator?/quote]

ALPA policy has to work in any merger, no matter how far fetched. No two airlines are the same. DAL and NWA are pretty close, but they are not the same. Therefore, no two DOHs are the same. Fortunes rise and fall at airlines. Todays start-up may grow into a mainline legacy type carrier. Or todays mainline airline may end up a small regional. What has happened since you got hired should not work for you....or against you. Where you are today is all that matters.

But yes, I think to argue DOH is to argue that an ASA pilot hired one day before I was hired at DAL should go ahead of me should we merge. Or to look at it another way, supposed the combined DAL/NWA were to merge with AK down the road. Should a 737 captain who has no career expectation to an international widebody seat go ahead of a DL/NW pilot because of DOH?