Originally Posted by
Klimax
Did NJE follow the seniority list when they laid off pilots recently? - about a year or two ago or so. The seniority list is only worth something (ANYTHING) if the employer actually uses it - NJE didnīt in recent times - or perhaps my memory fails me..
That's for the other thread, but I will answer in short (as I was affected myself by those "furloughs"): basically you are right and it caused a lot of outrage in 2020. The Falcon crews had to go as the company had decided to get rid of all Falcons and British law allows to do exactly this: get rid of people who are on this fleet outside seniority. The other 40-ish pilots, who also had to go, were selected by seniority from other fleets.
I am still strongly in favour of such a system, we are now 600+ pilots in Netjets, there's no other way, I am afraid.