All positions should be purely merit based regardless of DOJ, sex, gender, race etc.....Make ti so pilots can move easily around the world without fear
This sounds like the sort of thing an HR graduate would say
Explain exaclty how a merit based system would work.
I'm in an airline of thousands of pilots and by definition of us doing our jobs properly we should all be doing everything the same way. Nobody should be doing anything better or worse as we ought to following the same script.
Check scores are subjective and depend on the checkie as much as the student, fuel burns and OTP matrix? Forget it as too much is outside our control.
I've worked under both systems, and both have pros and cons. The larger the organisation the more relevance seniority has because it solves a problem no other system can..
Transparency