merge into a non-seniority totem, but pretend "senority"
A few slots above, Bograt points-out one weakness:
"... What good is a seniority list if it is ignored? We have a seniority list, but still suffer the effects of cronyism ..."
MERGER-list versus a seniority-list
Under the pretense of unionism, many pilots claim their's is a seniority-list. But instead, the merged-list is really a totem -- with their junior pilots placed above the other company's more senior pilots: still they pretend that their's is a "seniority" list.
If a larger group of pilots abandons the "seniority" concept (defined in 1932) during a merger of pilot groups, why not abandon the claim of a "seniority" list?
A more honest description would NOT claim the term "seniority", for a NON-seniority totem of pilots, or bid-list.