Each case turns on its own merits.
Perhaps UAL furloughs would go to the bottom, but being LCC has some 224 furloughs they would not be alone. Perhaps they could get right of first refusal to ORD and DEN, or some such stipulation. Perhaps all east furloughs would actually populate the bottom, and the West furloughs would get recalled in seniority order, once the UAL furloughs exercised the right of first refusal.
Using the UAL list and the Nic would already cause West pilots that are furloughed out of seniority to be on the street, while east pilots junior to them are employed, so something would have to be worked out to bring back furloughees in a fair and equitable manner.
My logic? I did not construct the Nic. The Nic was the result of AWA and AAA merging, UAL and LCC merging is an entirely different animal. Our situation had its own set of circumstances, and frankly, it all boiled down to Monda (the bottom guy) could either be the bottom guy of an entire list of unemployed pilots, or he could be second from the bottom of a list of employed pilots, end of story. What he could not be, nor never had the chance of being, was senior to 80% of the West list.
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