Let's face it-the one and only, the ONE and ONLY, way to integrate seniority lists is by SENIORITY!!!! Pure and simple, I entered the business before, or after you, hence I fit in before, or after, you. The whole idea that some subjective standards like, "my airline was stronger than yours" is ludicrous.
Live by seniority, die by it. ALPA should have made that THE only merger policy back when deregulation happened, rather than standing by doing nothing. The outcome of deregulation was completely unforeseeable-American was thought a dead duck in 1978, but it is the only survivor without a trip through Chapter 11. AW, UAL, NW and DL once each. PA, BN, EA all disappeared. TW and USAir twice and they warrant being pasted onto to the bottom of the list (AA and USAir) as if infected dog doo-doo.
Johnnyramjet--nice one, was wondering when an AN guy would bring that up?
GF