Originally Posted by Wasatch Phantom

I think the methodology would be similar to the Pan Am/DAL SLI.

Pan Am brought over A-310's and 727's. They determined how many captains DAL had on aircraft larger than the A-310, (600 or so, IIRC) and then started integrating the Pan Am pilots in a ratioed basis at that point. There were fences which were not very long in duration.

But the Pan Am pilot group that came over was quite old and the vast majority of them were gone within ten years or so.

I doubt the SLI proposed by the SWA pilots with regard to Frontier would be acceptable to the AS pilots....