If you want to grasp a realistic picture of how this will likely turn out, you must factor the expected career progression for each airline as if they were never part of pncl. This may **** a lot of you mesaba and colgan people off, but you can't run from the facts. The arbitrator will look at where you would likely be without this integration, and will factor that into his decision, that is fact. Colgan would be without any large growth (Q400s) and mesaba would be sabb-less in the coming months with plenty of furloughs on they way. You can make all sorts of irrational arguments based on your personal opinion of "fair", but these factors will be part of the arbitrated decision.