Seniority list
I'm not a pilot at a major airline, so my info could use a bit of refining. Here goes...
I seen the seniority list (the WHOLE list) for AA back during the year 2000-ish time frame. This was just after the TWA pilots were incorporated into the AA seniority system. It was about 75 pages in Excel spreadsheet form.
It went like this:
Seniority #, Name, Hire Date, 60th Birthday
00001, Joe AA Pilot, 3/25/65, 1/18/2005
...
12000, Bob TWA F/O, 5/15/00, 8/20/2040
Every 20 or so AA pilots, after seniority number, say...1000, they would put in the most senior TWA pilot. And so on...until they reached the most recent AA pilot hired, then they stuffed the last 2500 or so TWA pilots to the end of the seniority list.
My mentor, the guy who flies for AA and showed me this list was around seniority #6000 something. I then asked him what it would be like to the one of the top 200, perhaps even the #1 seniority position. His answer was that those top 200 guys are scheduled for less than half the year, get 180 days off and 180+ sick days available. They get paid probably US$200k a year, call in sick for 180 days a year and have the rest of the year as scheduled days off.
What a life. Getting paid to stay away from work, if one chooses to do so.