For a nano-second -- Let's pretend that BB is going to pay pilots 25% more than he does today. Do you really think that the Midwest 5 year FO is going to sign on with RAH to move down from his current $71 per hour to the $46 per hour an RAH 5 year FO would be making (and that is at the a 25% increase- current rate is $37 per hour). Additionally, he would likely have another five years as an FO. This is due to the fact that an upgrade at RAH will likely now be 10 years or more when all the lists are merged.

There is going to be so much fall out from the merged lists, that by the time the dust settles, American and Delta will be hiring again before anyone gets an upgrade at RAH. The key to any positive coming from any of this is for the pilot's unions to be as fair as possible to all sides. No matter what happens -- the guys at the tale end of every list are going to get screwed -- F9, Midwest, and RAH -- period. It would truly be best for all concerned for all of the keyboard commandos out there to support their union and quit bashing each other. In the end, when pilots quit bashing each other, management will have far lesser advantage. Example - if EVERY pilot out there supported an national 121 seniority list by aircraft type, do you think all of this bashing would be going on?

If you work for RAH, Midwest, Frontier, Mesa, Comair, or any other Regional (or yes "Nationals" for the bottom feeding keyboard commando's) raise the bar and support the goal of overall pilot professionalism and quit the jealous inter-company bashing. I don't know of a single pilot right now that has the option to say "I quit" because he happened to end up working for a company where he does not approve of his management's actions. Until those day return, quit bashing other pilot groups, grow up and work together. For Pete's sake -- put your big boy pants on.