Totally agree. LIFO has always been the standard (which Air NZ commendably stuck to) for the difficult task of selecting redundancies in a business where it is almost impossible to discriminate between employees on performance (we all do the same job and achieve the same results). It is the simplest and probably least bad solution to a horrible problem. But since the introduction of age discrimination (wasn’t that supposed to protect older people?) that clarity has gone and the entire workforce is potentially in the firing line, stress up to 11 all round. Progress?