no; what would be unfair (as you put it) is if we disregarded the Co tract we all signed on joining. Why should someone who’s done 30years be made redundant because someone who’s been here 5 minutes is on a more active fleet.?
If you want to see what unfair looks like, join Wizz or Emirates where you can enjoy a career of looking over your shoulder for the spectre of redundancy until the day you retire.
My wife is is HR, and she said at the start that if a business is trying to preserve immediate cash flow then you make those redundant to whom you don’t have to pay a severance. I.e those who have served less than 2 years & those who are on probabtion. No tribunals, no cash leaving the business right now. Long term is makes little sense to cut your cheapest people, but in a crisis long term thinking goes out the window.