Industry wide seniority, I like the sound of that!
There are many of us who through no fault of our own, missed the boat when the airlines were in a hiring boom mid 2000’s. As such, we found ourselves locked out of the ‘seniority system’ in Australia. Then eventually when things were on again, we were at the bottom of the list, with no chance to get anywhere near a command for a long time, and trying to raise families in expensive Australian cities on crappy low cost airline wages.
Thus, for me, the decision was to leave Australia and chase commands overseas instead, and earn better money so my kids could have a good education in the future.
Unfortunately this leaves people like me out of the seniority system back home, and makes it difficult to return.
Thus, it becomes clearer why I don’t like the seniority system!
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