I completely agree Wirblesturm.
Personally I think it will be pretty hard to disadvantage anyone long term. At the risk of repeating what has already been said... Their are circa 56 prime slot pairs coming across. bmi is operating them as short/mid haul with 290 full time equivalent pilots. These have already publicly been earmarked for long haul expansion. This will require aprox 800 pilots. 400 captains and 400 fo's. So even if all of the bmi pilots coming over we're to go in as long haul to crew these slots, (which they don't) that would still require in addition 255 captains who otherwise would not have had the upgrade opertunity 255 short haul fo's who could now bid up and the need to recruit 510 in order to fill the gap. I can't really see how anyone will be disadvantaged long term by the merging of the 2 groups on a fair and relativly equal basis.