There are conflicting requirements here....

The RAH scope requires everyone on one list.

F9 pilots have a contract, which will be binding on the new owners (unless modified in BK).

There is a new federal law requiring "Fair and Equitable" integration of seniority lists.


The only obvious way to satisfy all three legal and contractual requirements is to merge

- F9 into RAH (Satisfies RAH Scope)
- Fence F9 so all F9 FO's can upgrade into airbii (satisfies the integration law)
- Keep F9 payscales for Aibii (satisfies F9 pilot contract).

If you do it any other way, you violate a law or contract, make a lot of folks angry, and spend years in arbitration/lawsuits.

There is one other really ugly scenario, but it depends on F9 scope with regards to code-shares...if there are no restrictions on code-share, the good reverend could simply fire the F9 pilots, shift the arbii to RAH and fly them as a code-share in F9 paint...virtual airline. Or he could sell the airbii and use 190s.

If you any of you RAH types think YOU should upgrade ahead of a 7-year F9 FO, you need to be slapped silly. Ya'll should just sit down shut up and hope like heck that F9 payscales make into your contract, and not vice-versa.