Originally Posted by
Lapon
Except its actaully the junior pilots that miss out as the 'mates and mercenary brigade' take all of the senior/command positions.
Imagine a 'merit based' promotion system being transparent and limited in its ability to be abused. Ah huh....now back to reality.
How do you measure merit when you're all the same, except years of service and hours in the logbook. In a commercial airliner you all operate the same, that's the whole purpose of sops. If you are different you won't be there very long whether or not that happens to be a better different. For those that think offer more than just doing your job, then that becomes expected, that is the cause of the problem and you created it.