Assuming, for the sake of argument, that we are supposed to use our sim date as our DOH. I have yet to hear one person explain how that is workable in the SLI process since you had junior people finishing their checkride first and thus being 'hired' ahead of people senior to them. ALPA merger policy clearly states that people cannot jump ahead of people senior to them in the completed SLI award. You would have a complete reordering of the 9E seniority list under this scenario. The only logical way to get around this is to create an adjustment that puts all people on even footing within each newhire class. The most logical way to do this is to use the start of class, which is an industry standard practice and as supported by the JCBA and subsequent LOA. The list that Pinnacle submitted at the start of negotiations had these adjusted dates. Mesaba and Colgan has almost half a year to contest this adjustment and yet only choose to do this at the very past second. Yes pinnacle Corp may have botched a few people here or there because they were given no time to prepare the list, and I am all for correcting those errors. But you cannot argue that we have to use our original sim DOH is inane and completely unworkable.