Interesting read, but I would agree that some of those perceptions are probably opinion-based.

I can't describe all the history at CAL because I wasn't around for all of it, but here we have:

Old Continental
Old Eastern
Old Texas
Original Frontier
NY Air
People Express
Old Continental Express
Flow Through Continental Express
Preferential Hiring Continental Express
Continental Interns
Continental Express Interns
Scabs, and finally,
Super Scabs

I think I hit all the different groups here at CAL. Maybe someone can correct me. You will need the scab list though as the employee number or hire date will not give you the full story. Just those two together could be about 90% accurate, but some of the guys hired during that time were Old Frontier and given numbers similar to the scabs. Others worked the ramp or whatever during college and when they came on as pilots were given their original CAL (scab similar) employee number.

It gets complicated, but that new updated "All UniCAL Scab" list will be interesting and important to see, esp. since we are all going to be getting new employee ID numbers sometime later this year. The current scab list I have has everyone on it and I would like to see one that is updated as guys leave the company so it's easier to count down to the day when they are finally gone from the cockpit. Guess I could do the same with the seniority list here myself, though.