Seniority

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Originally Posted by Trossie

TACHO, an excellent post!

However, in answer to ... I will repeat my earlier example:

"Pilot B is a junior pilot but is really keen on a base move, so he bids for it. It takes a year for a vacancy to come up and just before it does so Pilot A, who is an old timer in the company, decides to bid for that base. On the first-come-first-served system, Pilot B gets the base move. However, on a seniority system, Pilot A (who had absolutely no interest in that other base for all of the last year) can play his last-minute trump card of seniority and get that base that Pilot B had been longing for for the past year. Which one is fair?"

But equally I have seen a situation in a ‘non seniority’ based airline where a more ‘senior’ based pilot with a family was moved from a base in order to aid recruitment when the base involved was more attractive to new joiners. How is that fare?