Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
Not in the way Ryanair do it - it's probably illegal to have a negative correlation between experience and terms. In other airlines where new FOs and upgrading captains have higher average experience, the correlation is broadly positive (but it's still on legally dodgy ground to run beyond a five year plateau).
Fair enough. I just know I got jumped on the waiting list for my preferred base by people who applied for it months after me. It was explained to me that it's because those people had earlier doj's than me and FR (at least in the UK) now employ a seniority based system.