So instead, you think it's fair to take someone who has say 20% seniority at one company and push them back to say 30% seniority at the merged company? How is that fair to them?
If your worried about younger guys getting ahead of older guys, then shouldn't you use DOB as a seniority list. Would that be fair? Obviously not.
In reality, there isn't a good solution to this whole problem.
Perhaps NWA guys can buy a few hundred of their top guys into early retirement and it will perhaps even the score a bit.
What I'm saying after 4 mergers is that all a pilot brings to a merger is his union membership and how long he has worked for the airline. That seems to be the only true measure of his or hers contribution to the merger. Anything else is pure speculation and or greed. ALPA should have had a method set in stone years ago.