Originally Posted by
flyer4life
Scaremongering. None of this happens at my non-seniority airline and any plans to introduce such nonsense could be easily stopped by a united workforce and a decent union. Also, such an airline would become a crap place to work and, with true free movement of labour, would struggle to maintain staff levels.
But it’s OK for the gross unfairness of pilots spending 15+ years on a seniority list and having to start again at the bottom because their company went bust? Our companies are run by senior executives who have fundamentally different (and shorter term) incentives to those of pilots on long seniority lists. The executives don’t have to worry about starting at the bottom if it all goes wrong.
It would be interesting to see the true numbers, but considering more companies have folded over time than exist now, it’s a reasonable assumption to say seniority has screwed more of us than it has benefitted.
The future is so unpredictable with many, many unknowns. Trying to plan around a 20 year wait in the queue at one company seems more like an exercise in one’s luck than “choosing wisely”.
I honestly have no clue how you can have a Union, but not seniority. As far as the eternal “is it fair” argument: Maybe not, but it definitely isn’t fair for those in a well run company waiting for their upgrade to by be bypassed by people that took the early upgrade in a dodgy company.