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Capt Scribble
LIFO as fair as you can get as it does not use any means of personal discrimination. You could start looking at sim grades, sickness, helpfulness, punctuality and any number of subjective qualities, ultimately it will be what the union negotiates with the management. Redundancy is not fair, but LIFO is easy to understand and simple to administer although it will not be favoured by the company as it will probably incur retraining costs and they keep the ones they would like to be rid of.
Fairness is of course a subjective thing. But would you argue that its fair for a senior pilot, a year or two off retirement, to keep his position whilst the junior pilot with the young family who has already lost his job at Monarch and TC if the last few years loses his?
Of course, lifes not fair; but if that was what we strived for, I can't see anything fairer than names out of a hat. I'm not seriously suggesting it but maybe FIFO would have some merit in the sense of fairness - the pilot leaving would have benefited from the longest period of continuous employment.