"Relative seniority would hurt every pilot at SWA who went to SWA after leaving AAI as well as pilots who took the extra time to get hired at SWA instead of getting on at AAI earlier. Also, SWA senior pilots had a much larger percentage of retirements to look forward to in the near future. Relative seniority would shift that benefit to AAI pilots."





Future attrition based on retirements had never been considered, I don't believe, until the DAL/NWA sli and then only partially. Neither group agreed with that decision.