rtt. You cannot apply what happened to PanAm to this fiasco. Normally, when a company goes bankrupt thats it. The a/c get sold and the pilots are out on the street looking for work. Any work forthcoming means starting at the bottom of the seniority list. With SWISS however it is different. The bankrupt company (Swissair) was kept going while finance was obtained and legal proceedures found to avoid the new company being liable for debts. On start-up day all the hardware and resources of Swissair are simply transferred across together with Crossair's to form SWISS. All the flights are flying to the same destinations as the day before with the same crews operating them, being briefed by the same ops crews, getting their mail from the same mailbox as the day before with the only difference the callsign! Working out the seniority - a nightmare! How can you justify telling an MD11 Captain of 30 years service he now has to be below the most junior FO in Crossair?