No smoke without fire
It may be fishing but there is also no smoke without fire. I am a sad git with nothing better to do today due to the roster so I'll respond.
The financial mechanism of KA's transfer to be fully in the CX fold has nothing to do with it, i.e. bought, merged etc. Try looking at European law on the subject and the UK legistlation on TUPE (Google it up). You may be surprised by what you see, putting employees at the bottom of the seniority is illegal.
There is also the small problem of retaining 400+ pilots if they do try insulting them in that way and/or condemning them to fly into China forever.
I can only see benefits for all in combining the seniority lists. I cannot see how it will effect anyone's command or other prospects given that the overall fleet will be bigger.
Discuss.