Originally Posted by
macdo
While that seems a logical assertion, after the demise of seniority listed Thomas Cook last year, the vast majority of Captains who got jobs went directly into airlines as Captains. TRE/I's had even less problems as they were mostly lined up with multiple offers within a few weeks.
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While some elected not to stay in the UK and went for jobs in various countries as CM1.
Now imagine every airline in the world ran a strict seniority system. For the captains who lost their job due to no fault of their own (bankruptcy), it would mean:
- Back to the right seat.
- With command times in many seniority-based airlines running at 15+ years, they would never see the left seat ever again.
- Significant drop in salary for the remainder of their career.
- Should their new airline get in trouble, they'd be laid off before a kid with 500 hrs despite they've probably got 15k hours (assuming LIFO).
And all this just because they weren't "smart" enough to predict the future economics of an airline they joined 30 years ago, and got laid off through absolutely no fault of their own.
Would that seem fair to you?