Wow, that was a quick edit!...pre-merger status was premerger stovepipe (straight seniority order) status. If, in your case, you were enjoying flying the ER or dom. 767 or something better than M88B as a relative new hire, then you were flying it "out of seniority order" and after the merger guess what?...no windfalls here, and no bad deals either...neutral...you are still flying something "out of seniority order"....only now you'll have hundreds of DC9 and A320 B's descending out of the blizzards of the frozen north who are hungrier than bi't'ch wolves at whelping time for the genteel life of a landed Southern Gentleman....sipping mint juleps on the front verandah, and occassionally dropping in to Paris or London for some shopping...

Now, if you haven't been flying something out of seniority then...nevermind...it was just a wild guess on my part.

Nu's choice of words might seem, to a few slightly curious, -to imply that it is OK for a 91' hire to be placed behind a 95' hire, but "not so OK" for a 01' hire to be "slammed behind" a 07' hire......Nu managed to cherry-pick the 91' vs. 95' controversy, as that is to my knowledge the only place on the whole seniority list where a significant block of people (150-200?) are inverted in seniority DOH in favor of NW. (Correct me if I am wrong, Nu.) I would say the average DOH difference is more like 2-3 years overall.

And Bucking, you are right, this is a hypersensitive 900 lb. gorilla, and as long as he is behind bars (or we are behind bars) ...it is hard to resist teasing him every once in a while...