Originally Posted by
TheEdge
Never understood how a Company, any Company, could maintain and allow for such a waste of money.
It allows those in longer employment to earn more during times when flights are sparse and those who've only just joined to take the brunt of it.
Essentially it is all about keeping longer serving employees happier, LIFO principle works the same.
If redundancies are required, and they loose those last joined pilots, the ones that were joining just prior to them are now becoming couch potatoes. A very bad practice imho, instead better to share the lower work load keep everyone a little bit happy, rather then only those in longer employment.