Best I can tell, there was NO regard for type of equipment, hence about 60% of the airline is out of position for their seniority on the combined list.......
Fins, the list was merged by widebody then narrowbody positions, as I'm sure you are well aware. While it was not done in a precisely detailed manner, -ratioed to specific individual types of equipment, I'll bet it would very closely mirror such a detailed list. I'm not sure what you mean by "60% of the airline is out of position...." Surely you realize the list
had to be filled in by "stovepipe" methodology... there is no other
possible legal way to fill in positions on a new, combined seniority list. The current aircraft position you happen to enjoy right now has a very loose correlation with your permanent, indisputable, set-in-stone, linear relative position on
the seniority list. That was true before the merger and will be true after the merger and will always be true to a certain extent. There are many who are clearly flying "out of position" (both junior
and senior) but I doubt it's 60%, -it would depend on how precisely you define "out of position". Unless the actual positions held correlated
exactly with the stovepipe list then we would
all be flying "out of position". I think this fear on the part of the junior DL pilots of being displaced
en masse by their NW brothers is highly overstated. It is founded on the idea that DAL positions/bases are somehow "better" than NWA's, something I'm sure NWA guys would never in a million years agree with. Because of this fear, the positions held at DAL, at least, and most likely NWA, will probably become more "rationalized" ie. closer to a "stovepipe" positioning before SOC, and will make it harder for anyone at either airline to "get a good deal (out of seniority)" on positions at the "other" airline after SOC.
......If Alaska got the same integration methodology the NWA pilots got (Bloch liked to see different colors mixed throughout the list) expect quite a few 737 to Whale and 777 bids.....
I don't think he did the list by "colors". The AK guys would most likely and logically be combined starting at the top of the narrowbody capt. group. They would probably be "fenced in" somehow, for a while, but even if not, they would have to go through a ton of 757, 767-300,-400 and A330 pilots before they could get their hands on a 747 or 777.