The question seems to be with the furloughed pilots. DOH, they go way up the list and many AWA pilots get furloughed. A WINDFALL for furloughed pilots, many of whom have already dealt with the interruption in their lives(which AWA had nothing to do with) and moved on. Or, I guess the east wanted them slotted into the DOH location on the list when recalls occur. This would have been another WINDFALL for pilots not even active at the time of the merger and would have perpetuated the lower 3/4's of the ex-AWA pilots position on the bottom of the list. Either way the current, flying, working, innocent of any wrongdoing AWA pilots see their career stagnate for the time it takes to assimilate 1500 some odd furloughed guys.
I don't see how it could have been any other way for those pilots who were actively flying at the time of the merger. All those furloughed guys bought with their seniority was the right to a recall to the bottom of the list at the former, seperate USAirways. They got the same thing in this deal except it was to a much larger airline with high operating margins, growth planned, and a bright future,if only the employees could swallow their anger, forget the past and work together to make this a truly great airline for the employees,the passengers and the investors.