Kit Sanbumps KG
In all airlines whether seniority based or otherwise you have to pass the command to get that left seat. My first airline did not have a seniority list. There were captains who were contractors who had no right to be sat in an aircraft let alone the left hand seat. There were captains who were in the right squadron so therefore “good eggs” or brownnosers who were absolute disasters to fly with and there were FO’s who because they had pissed off a certain senior manager would never even get in front of a command board.
I’m now relatively speaking junior in a seniority based airline with the best T’s and C’s of my career and everyone knows where they stand. I wouldn’t change a thing.