Let's hope you all don't go through what most TWA pilots are at this time, in the US. American Airlines/ Merger Committee (the AA union is APA), put most of the TWA pilots (ALPA union) below almost every pilot with American. Soon, about half of all TWA pilots will be on furlough-going back to hire dates around '93 or '94. AA's Merger Committee seems to rationalize this by pointing out the very bad financial conditions at old TWA, and the slim chances given TWA's survival by market analysts-as if it were the pilots' fault (they had given up around 40% of salaries to help it survive Carl Icahn's assaults upon corporate funds and his "rights" to all profits from 20% of airline's ticket stock-he owned this amount...). Certain TWA aircraft removed from flying, suggested by certain APA east coast LEC members, might have allowed even more American pilots to move to the captain's seat.
Nice way to treat your buddies. Much ignorance and arrogance were displayed by some of our people in a merger years ago.
Seniority is their mantra, when one former airline is allowed to exploit the other group. With a merger, under US law the resulting corporate entity is actually a very different entity. This means nothing to those trying to steal your captain (or FO) seat.