Originally Posted by
flyboyike
Originally Posted by arketip
Originally Posted by Uplinker
Owing to the seniority system that exists in most airlines, the young ones are held away from the LHS until the old ones retire. So the young ones want the old ones out as soon as possible so that they - the young ones - can earn more money. (Who is being mercenary or selfish there?). But the older person was there first - why shouldn’t s/he continue?
How did the "old" one got in that position? Maybe because the one before them retired at the mandatory age?
Why did not the old one fight to raise or eliminate the retirement age when they were sitting on the right seat?
Good question.
Erm Pardon? ... Read it all again. The old one surely had other struggles and priorities getting into and keeping the RHS, let alone progressing through ups and downs of the industry, and unless from down under, might have certainly been part of a less enlightened society! It surely also begs the
real question about why exactly - when we as a society are far more aware of what can be done against deliberate unlawful discrimination - that the current young ones aren't arguing to uphold the law, or to support the old one in upholding it. Frankly, none of it is pretty to behold from pros who are otherwise supposed to follow law and rules to the letter
Maybe you know better than both the elders and the lawmakers? You shouldn't be afraid of questioning the judgement of the former sat in a LHS, but the latter? That's not something I would think would normally be seen as a good quality in a professional pilot at any rate!
As others have indicated, the Australians got past this nonsense years ago. Why are so many of the rest intent on remaining so Neanderthal about it?