You missed the entire point, I was defending the Eagle guys. I was saying that the American guys benefitted from the flow back by giving them captain jobs when they would have had no job at all. You had essential Eagle newhires flying as captains, therefore it worked out great for those guys and bad for Eagle. Yet now that some of the Eagle guys with American numbers are flowing up, the American guys are complaining. They want their cake and eat it too.
My response was to the American guy who was complaining about Eagle guys with senority numbers at American, claiming that they are nothing more than newhires. Therefore, I stated the FACT that you can not be a newhire if you already have a senority number.