Originally Posted by LAX Pilot

I think its going to be interesting how they do that because the UAL side has less than 10 active pilots that are under the age of 40 and almost no matter what happens with SLI, if you are under 40, the long term is going to be no different because everyone on the list senior to you is a "ghost" long term, because they leave the list.

So if a sUAL pilot is supposed to move up the list 7% every year because that's the percentage of senior people who retire, but once SLI is done he only moves up 5% because the sCAL guys senior to him are younger, there has to be some mechanism to account for that when putting the list together.

Also, fences don't work unless they are lifetime because most pilots won't hold widebody Cap in the next 5 years, so those fences only protect pilots who are close to holding it. So my take is no fences, just use SLI to try and make everybody whole.

What I would do if I were the arbitrator is give everyone a value based on their seniority, age, and career expectations, and they put the two lists together in a way where the aggregate value for each list has the least variability and the same amount of pre merger value. If there is a gain or loss past SLI, each side gets an equal value of that gain or loss.

What I don't know is how they are going to weigh the status and category, longevity, and career expectations.