American take over of Twa question/s

[pcpilot2]

American purchased Twa not long before 9/11.
The top 800 on the Twa on the pilot seniority list were intergrated with Americans according to their start date.The rest were stapled to the bottom.
After 9/11 and the furloughs which followed,apart from the top 800,most of the Twa pilots would have been looking for another job.
Have I got this correct?

[5030N]

Don't recall the exact numbers above and below the "staple point", but you are substantially correct in your conclusion.

5030N

(one of those stapled)

[Proplinerman]

An American contact of mine told me that rather than having "taken over" TWA, American Airlines had "trashed" them.

[Evileyes]

To be clear, the stapling wasn't quite at "the bottom" of the list as there were a few hundred AA pilots below the TWA pilots when the merger actually occured (who are still furloughed 9+ years later).

However, this is an extremely controversial topic which has been argued vociferously, vehemently, and very nastily in a dozen other forums.

Lets let it settle a bit further into the dust before we discuss it as 'history' because it certainly isn't 'nostalgic'.